A total of Sh1.2 billion has been allocated to compensate civil servants who sustain permanent injuries or lose their lives while on duty.
Addressing National Government Administration officers in Vihiga County on Monday in the DIDC hall during a NYOTA project sensitization meeting, Principal Secretary State Department for Public Service and Human Capital Development, Dr. Jane Kere Imbunya said plans are underway to compensate civil servants who get incapacitated or die while on duty.
Dr. Imbunya said that her state department is tasked with taking care of the welfare of all civil servants in Kenya including their employment in liaison with the Public Service Commission, their promotion, renumeration and even compensation.
She added that the president recently issued an executive order stating how civil servants who get injured or die in line of duty will be compensated and Sh1.2 billion has been set aside for the same.
The PS further said that they are working on modalities to come up with a plan on who will compensate the victims, or their beneficiaries incase such risks occur.
“It is regrettable that National Health Insurance Fund which was tasked with compensating such victims was not up to the task and most civil servants and their dependents have suffered when faced with such calamities,” said Dr. Imbunya.
She reminded the officers that there is a vibrant guiding and Counselling directorate in her state department calling on them and their dependents to make use of it so that they can offer better services to the citizens when they are in a good mental state.
Dr Imbunya added that they are in the process of cleaning the payroll so that they can weed out ghost workers so that the money wasted on ghost workers can be redirected towards development.
She noted that some county governments lack proper staff establishment structures, adding that certain governors hire officers irregularly and pay them through channels outside the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS).
The PS also pointed that a team will be visiting county governments in two weeks’ time in a bid to clean their payrolls.
By Maureen Imbayi
