Top 20 highest paid civil servants in Kenya and their salaries

1. The crazy idea of paying civil servants this crazy amount of money was brought to Kenya by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. These two institutions’ reasoning was that if the civil servants were paid huge salaries it would improve their productivity and stop corruption. The opposed turned out to be true. The IMF and World Bank polices have enriched a few individuals at the expense of the masses. But the main idea these two institutions had in mind which never worked was that if a few individuals earned so much money, it would annoy the masses and they would take to the streets burning property, rioting and causing mayhem and pandemonium. The IMF and World brought these ideas under the Structural Adjustment Programmes, the infamous (SAPS). This is why a few individuals wallop in obscene amounts of money every month whilst the majority of Kenyans cannot afford even a packet of a two-kilogram maize flour.
   There is nothing so special these top thirty plus people do to deserve such colossal sums of money every month. Kenya cannot sustain such pay packages for too long before the situation explodes. Even rich Industrialist countries such as the U.K, America, Canada, Australia, France, Germany and the rest of the European countries do not pay their civil servants such amounts of money. Indeed, there is no country in the world which pays its civil servants anything near what Kenyan civil servants earn, not even fifty thousand of their respective currencies every month. Indeed, in the U.K for example, there is a total pay freeze for civil servants for the last since 2008. The U.K prime minister’s salary is less than £42,000 per year. The President of Kenya and the vice president earn more than the prime minister of the U.K. Indeed, they earn more than the president of the United States of America. Extra ordinary.
   It is very strange and crazy for Kenya government to pay such extra ordinary salaries to civil servants every month without the government asking itself how it can afford to pay such monstrous sums of money to civil servants every month. If industrialist countries cannot afford to pay such salaries to their civil servants and politicians, why should a country whose man export is vegetables pay civil servants and politicians such exorbitant sums of money as salaries every month?
   Some of this damage was caused by Raila Odinga. He was the champion of removing Moi from power with the promise to Kenyans that the new damage would be creating five hundred thousand jobs every month. Indeed, the first thing the new government did with Raila as Prime Minister was to increase Members of Parliaments’ salaries by 500 percent yes, (500%). Such outrageous things never happen anywhere else in the world except in Kenya. I have never heard, of salary increase of 50 % for civil servants in any country in the world.
   The salaries of Kenya government politicians and senior civil servants needs to be revised downwards by hundreds of thousands of shillings. The salaries of civil servants should be in tens of thousands and not hundreds of thousands to a million plus. Why should a few individuals be paid extortionate sums of money when thousands of young university graduates cannot find jobs? Why can’t this money be invested in projects which can create jobs to absorb the young unemployed graduates?
   The youth are the future of any country, but Kenyans don’t seem to see things that way. Kenyans are so greedy to a point that they only think of themselves and their families. There are no plans to invest in projects that can absorb the many unemployed youth, there are no plans to assist or retrain recent graduates to meet the job market requirements, there is no vision at all as to what the government can do to alleviate the situation of unemployment and hopelessness among the unemployed youth.
   The youth have been forgotten and left behind to fend for themselves. Some have turned into robbery in order to meet their daily expenses. These are the people the police are gunning down every day as robbers. If young recent graduates cannot find jobs, they are not assisted by the government in any way whatsoever, what do they do? These young people, need decent housing to live in, they need to start families, they need decent clothing, they need to have children and be able to send them to school, they need food and all other necessities of life. But they have no jobs, no assistance from the government, no decent housing nothing. Where do they turn to for help?
   These huge salaries which are paid to a few individuals need to be sliced downwards by 400 per cent yes, (400%). So that they can be sustainable, and the money saved from those deductions can be used for investment in projects which can generate employment for the youth who are unemployed currently. If he salaries can not be revised downwards, then the Kenya currency should be re-calibrated and re-adjusted downwards to give a semblance of reasonable salaries.

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