- He directed that 904 ECDE and technical tutors be confirmed on permanent employment
- On development, the county boss said he is still committed to give Kisii the best service
Kisii Governor Simba Arati has ordered a fresh audit of the county government's payroll system to weed out ghost workers and those without proper credentials.
The audit aimed at cleaning up the payroll will be conducted by the County Public Service Board members who were sworn into office on Tuesday.
"We did the first headcount in your absentia and perhaps we may have not gotten everything right. But there were people with fake certificates, others were ghost workers. All these people must be removed from the system and it is up to you now as you start work " the Governor told the new board members.
He directed that 904 ECDE and technical tutors be confirmed on permanent employment.
The teachers and instructors had been without pay for months due to the absence of a functional public service board.
"The confirmation of the teachers should be prioritised as you start work Wednesday," Arati said.
The board will be chaired by by Elijah Obebo.
The governor urged the board officials to uphold integrity adding that the work ahead of them is tough.
"There shall be uproar, I know, but do not look back, just do your work faithfully. You will make enemies who will even want to kill you, just focus on your work," he said.
Arati said a biometric system will be installed to monitor staff in all departments .
"From a centralised system it will monitor the time you logged out for lunch and what time you reported back. This will scale down instances where some people go for lunch and report back at 5pm to pick their coats from office," he said.
The biometric system has already been procured and will be fixed in a few weeks time .
On development, the county boss said he is still committed to give Kisii the best service.
"Work on roads will start as soon the rains stop. What we will not do, however, is pay ghost workers," Arati said.
He congratulated the new officials saying he was was proud of the work MCAs had done.
Arati said he hopes the board will bring sanity into the human resource department as it settles down to work.
The governor expressed disappointment in some of the corrupt county employees who were still asking for bribes to give services.
"These are some of the things you will sit down to work on," he said.
Arati said all clans across the county have been represented in the board.
Deputy Governor Robert Monda described the installation of the board as a huge victory for the administration.
"The office you have come to needs integrity, it is also a political office. You will hear things, many of them false accusations but stand firm to the end," he stated.
Lying ahead of them, he said, is the major task to undertake human resource audit challenges that afflict the devolved unit.
County Speaker Philip Nyanumba said assembly has done its role diligently.
"You have now been tasked to uphold the integrity of the office because this is the first board we have put in office," he said.