Team proposes 60,000 public staff be sacked, number of leaders reduced

Budget and Appropriations Committee Chairman Mutava Musyimi (left) receives the Socio-Economic Audit of the Constitution report from Auditor General Edward Ouko in Nairobi, yesterday. [PHOTO: MOSES OMUSULA/STANDARD]

A task force has recommended that 60,000 civil servants be sacked and the number of MPs and Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) be reduced by half to lower the public wage bill.

The shocking interim report was drawn up by a team set up to find ways of reducing the cost of running the two levels of government created by the Constitution.