Public Service, Human Capital Development and Special Programmes Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku, has announced plans to introduce a clock-in system to monitor the attendance and performance of civil servants.
According to CS Ruku, the system is also expected to monitor adherence by the civil servants of the 2016 Human Resource Policies Procedure Manual for Public Service, the Public Service Code of Conduct and Ethics of 2016, the Induction Handbook for the Public Service 2017 among other policies and circulars issued by the government on the conduct of civil servants.
Ruku noted that the system will also flag 'ghost civil servants' who abscond their duties a few hours after reporting to work, adding that going forward, public servants who report late to work will be regarded as ghost workers and risk losing their jobs. "We are going to get in touch with all the supervisors from the sub-county level to the county, the regional and the national level and we are going to introduce an attendance register to ensure that each and every employee has a schedule of duties and also to ensure that each employee adheres to the Staff Performance Appraisal System," stated Ruku. "So long as you are paid a salary from monies which the government collects from the people of Kenya, you are supposed to take responsibility and be in the office during the stipulated time," he added.
The Cabinet Secretary spoke in Nyeri County on Tuesday after making an impromptu visit to the Central Regional Headquarters in the offices.
