Govt to review civil servants' pay, says Ruto

Deputy President William Ruto has said the government will review civil servants' salaries.

Mr Ruto said most of the country’s revenue was channelled to civil servants salaries and very little was left for the development of the country.

He said a review of the pay was the only way the country would realise its development agenda.

“About 70 per cent of our country’s revenue is used to pay workers in our country and only 30 per cent left for development, the deputy president said.

"This is very little for us to realise development and therefore there is a great need to rationalise our wage bill in a bid to foster development in our country,” he added.

Mr Ruto was speaking during a fundraiser at St Dorothy’s Primary School in Massimo in Tigania East constituency.

He said the Jubilee government aim was to deliver its agenda through proper service delivery to the people.

Mr Ruto said this could only be realised if the government reduced the losses it was incurring as well as managing its expenditure.

He added that the process was set to benefit all Kenyans and therefore urged them not to politicise the matter.

He said it was not right to pinpoint the members of parliament as people who were earning a lot of money since there were commissioners earning over a million shillings.

LAND DISPUTES

The deputy president expressed Jubilee government's commitment to ending land disputes in Meru County and especially in Tigania region, saying title deeds were ready to be issued to the residents.

“The government has already prepared 80,000 title deeds to be issued to the residents of Meru County as one of the ways of solving the boundary conflicts that have been rampant in the area. We need our people to have documents so that they can get loans which will be used in developing their businesses and agriculture,” he said.

On education, Mr Ruto said the government was committed to the provision of quality education.

He said the Jubilee government would emphasise on middle level colleges to assist those who did not get a chance to join universities.

He also said they were ready to work with the area MP Mr Mpuru Aburi despite the fact that he was elected to the National Assembly through an ODM ticket, in a bid to ensure that the Jubilee manifesto was implemented at the grassroots.

The deputy president was accompanied by Senate majority leader who is also Tharaka Nithi County senator Mr Kithure Kindiki, National Assembly Majority leader Mr Aden Duale, Embu County Senator Mr Lenny Kivuti, Meru County MP Ms Florence Kajuju, Nairobi County MP Ms Rachel Shebesh, and 12 other MPs.

All the leaders pledged to support the area MP in his development agenda despite having been summoned by Cord coalition's disciplinary committee for accompanying the deputy president to The Hague.