Cabinet Okays Changes to Civil Servants' Payroll
The resolutions were made during a Cabinet meeting held on Tuesday by President Ruto at State House Nairobi..
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Kenya's Cabinet has approved comprehensive payroll reforms following a special audit of the 2024–2025 financial year that revealed widespread integrity issues and governance failures within the Government Human Resource Information System-Kenya (HRIS-K). The overhaul aims to ensure uniform application of statutory deductions across all public entities and address anomalies like altered payroll records and weak cybersecurity.
- The audit uncovered that 720 system editors altered over 4.7 million payroll records without audit trails, with some employees editing their own records.
- Nearly 300 State Corporations failed to fully migrate to the HRIS-K system, contributing to payroll anomalies.
- Mandatory security certification for HRIS-K by March 11 this year, deployment of forensic analytics, and full integration of a statutory deductions platform are key reform measures.
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The Kenyan Cabinet has approved international agreements allowing organizations like the Ford Foundation and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to establish offices in Nairobi. The Cabinet also approved a major restructuring of the education sector, which includes merging the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), the Universities Fund, the TVET Funding Board, and the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service (KUCCPS) into a single authority. Additionally, comprehensive payroll reforms for civil servants were approved following a special audit of the 2024–2025 financial year. The audit revealed integrity issues and governance failures within the Government Human Resource Information System-Kenya (HRIS-K), and the overhaul aims to ensure uniform application of statutory deductions.
