Hundreds of Siaya county government workers, among them the chairman of the county public service board, have not been paid their salaries for the last two months for lack of personal file numbers. And the county assembly of Siaya is blaming the county executive’s human resource department for gross inefficiency that has seen more than 500 permanent staff as well as casuals work for years without the numbers that would see them incorporated in the payroll. During the assembly session chaired by speaker, George Okode, members lamented that the workers, among them market sweepers and hospital cleaners have been forced to go without salaries for the last two months after the controller of budget stopped manual payment of salaries outside the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Database, (IPPD). The house heard that those tasked with the responsibility of generating the personnel file numbers were tossing the workers from one office to another in a bid to extort bribes from them. Speaker Okode lamented that gross inefficiency in the human resource department was exposing county government workers to suffering while the county bosses were enjoying themselves unconcerned with their plight.
