Vihiga Governor Wilber Ottichilo has promised to weed out ghost workers as he implements an audit report by the County Public Service Board.
The report reveals that the devolved unit is losing millions of shillings through ghost workers.
The report shows that employees within the workstation with physical files and on the payroll were 1931 receiving Sh158,950,496.05 monthly.
However, Vihiga spent Sh213, 133, 757 on salaries for all employees on both manual and IPPD payrolls in the month of September 2021.
“In this report, we have established that the county has 48 employees without files or workstations but they are on the payroll, drawing Sh2,179,516.00,” Ottichilo said.
The audit report was handed to Ottichilo on Tuesday by CPSB chairman Franklin Esipila.
Esipila revealed a lot of discrepancies in the county workforce and urged Ottichilo to implement their recommendations to resolve the matter.
The audit also disclosed that a total of 1145 employees are on the payroll but have no workstation yet they draw Sh33,441, 720.13 monthly.
Ottichilo said all the findings require further investigations.
“I have received the staff audit report and there is a need to clean up the payroll," he said.
The governor said from the audit, they found a number of employees who have stagnated in the same job group for more than five years yet they deserve a promotion.
Ottichilo said the board will undertake action on some of the identified issues which include questionable employment, insufficient employee information, unverified certificates, lack of required practicing license, irregular absorption in the county service, missing deployment letters, competitive cases and retirement notifications among others.
“The implementation of the recommendations will benefit the county by enabling it to have a prudent payroll free of wastage," he said.
"Enhance removal of persons with questionable employment. Motivate staff with long overdue promotion and resignation and streamline human resource records."
