The government has issued a stern warning to inept public servants, citing their laxity for hampering service delivery to citizens.

In a surprise early-morning visit before 8am, Public Service, Human Capital Development, and Special Programmes Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku arrived in an unmarked car at the Uhuru na Kazi building in Mombasa, where several national government, regional, and county offices are hosted, to check on how government employees observed punctuality.

Dressed casually, Ruku methodically moved from floor to floor of the nine-storey building to assess work performance among public servants at the facility, who were caught unawares.

Consequently, unlucky civil servants who arrived after 8 o'clock were temporarily locked out at the main gate, even as the CS conducted an extensive tour of the building, accompanied by the County Commissioner, Mohamed Noor, Ganze MP Kenneth Tungule, and his Kaloleni counterpart, Peter Katana.