Rasanga link in ghost workers payments – Weekly Citizen

Siaya residents are planning to sue the county and individuals who have been receiving money without specific job descriptions.

The bitter residents want to recover the money paid to ghost workers.Governor Cornel Rasanga is said to have instructed the individuals to be factored in the payroll. He was rewarding those who campaigned for him.

CEO EACC Twalib Mbarak

Others want Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commision to probe the ghost workers payments and arrest those involved. This is happening as it has emerged,senior officials in finance department were getting Sh5000 from the absentee workers to facilitate payments. The money was deducted from the salaries.

Recently, county workers were in shock when aged politicians trooped to the county headquarters to pick their pay following a directive that employees present themselves personally to collect their wages.

Youthful employees who had lined up at the office of the chief officer in charge of governance, could not believe their eyes when local Orange Democratic Movement officials, among them a former chairman of the defunct Bondo county council, walked in and joined the queue to be vetted and take up their October 2019 salary cheques.

The county staff had been instructed in a memo signed by the county secretary Joseph Ogutu to fill a vetting form and attach their appointment letters, promotions and deployment and present themselves in person to pick the cheques.

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In the afternoon, a former chairman of the Bondo town council Akello Gwela surprised the staff and members of the public who were waiting to be served, when he walked in armed with a brown bag and requested to be allowed to jump the queue.

Gwela aged more than 70 years said that he could not bear to stand for long and pleaded with fellow workers to understand his predicament.

ODM party chairman for Ugenya constituency Darlington Mududa also walked in and demanded to be ushered in with the excuse that he hailed from a far flung corner of the county and needed to be served urgently in view of the ongoing rains.

Other people who emerged to pick the salary cheques, included a renowned contractor in Siaya town, Lilian Rege alias Super who was, however, told to go and fill a declaration form and have it signed by her supervisor.

Gwela and most political activists across the county are designated as information officers.

Siaya county secretary, Joseph Ogutu sent out a memo to all chief officers and directors, directing each member of staff to present him or herself in person to pick the salary cheque.