Strict auditing and cleaning up of the payroll is imperative to reducing our wage bill and ultimately minimising government spending. Since the 1990s, each administration has attempted to clean up the payroll but nothing much has been achieved. By EDITORIALMore by this AuthorThe National Treasury is grappling with a huge budget deficit and part of this is due to the huge wage bill. The other major cause of the ballooning wage bill is unmerited allowances paid to civil servants. Strict auditing and cleaning up of the payroll is imperative to reducing our wage bill and ultimately minimising government spending.

Source: Daily Nation November 29, 2019 21:11 UTC