Delayed Salaries: List of 6 Ministries Whose Employees Are Yet to Be Paid

by Kioko Nyamasyo on Thursday, 20 April 2023 - 7:15 am

Treasury CS Njuguna Ndung'u during a meeting with UN officials at his office on February 24, 2023.

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The National Treasury

Treasury is yet to release funds to six ministries for the remuneration of employees even as the cash crisis in the country escalates.

This has seen employees go into their second month without receiving salaries as their last payment was made at the end of February.

While civil servants continue to wait for their dues, the government has remained adamant that it will not borrow for recurrent expenditure and it will depend on revenue collected.

The Ministry of Education has been the worst hit with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) yet to pay teachers for the month of March.

A photo of TSC CEO Nancy Macharia.

Photo: TSC

TSC needs KSh8 billion from the Treasury to settle the pending bills.

The Ministry of Health on the other hand is short of Ksh2.5 billion to be to pay healthcare workers.

Healthcare workers from 12 counties downed their tools on Wednesday, April 19, due to the non-payment of their previous month's salaries and statutory deductions.

Counties where medics have dawned their tools include; Kisumu, Mombasa, Nyamira, Kisii, Murang’a, Nyeri, Laikipia, Bomet, Nyamira, Embu, Vihiga and Taita Taveta.

The Ministry of Energy is asking for Ksh306 million from the Treasury to settle March 2023, dues for their workers.

National Youth Service under the Ministry of Public Service is yet to receive Ksh845 million to remunerate its personnel.

At the State Department of Regional Development at the North Corridor, the government needs to disburse Ksh213 million to clear salary arrears.

Treasury itself needs Ksh1.7 billion to clear salary arrears for Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) employees.

County governments too are yet to receive any capitation from the government in 2023.

Speaking in Mombasa on Wednesday, April 19, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua revealed that counties will start receiving disbursement for the month of January 2023.

“It’s true we have had slight disbursement challenges. We have decided that we are not going to borrow money to pay salaries because it is not prudent and unsustainable. We are going to rely on our revenues. Soon the counties will receive their allocations,” the DP assured counties.