Yesterday sections of the news media were awash with information that cabinet had endorsed a pay-rise for all civil servants.
A government official who spoke to us on condition of anonymity says the raise has been reached after a systematic process.
“The president was worried about the ongoing strikes that threatened to paralyze his government. It is as if each department waits for another one to end then they begin their own,” she said.
She revealed more information related to the new plans for salary raises.
For most parts of this year, government has been challenged with one strike after the other, which prompted the president to send his intelligence services to understand what was going on.
Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) and the Internal Security Organization (ISO) carried out intelligence gathering and found that the strikes were not linked to any opposition party.
Rather they were connected to the tough economic conditions that were biting the population.
The president then called a cabinet meeting, and proposed a review of his agencies, to see if there were any resource leaks. A resource leak is where there is more expenditure than necessary.
Weeks after completing the fact finding, ISO and CMI found that indeed there were many agencies were a lot more money was being spent than was necessary.
They also pointed out the glaring salary disparities that if rearranged could meet some progressive increments for civil servants across the board.
Since the two reports came out, cabinet has overwhelmingly endorsed a pay-raise for all civil servants. But before this is done, a massive salary restructuring could take place.
