The government is set to increase the National Police Service, National Youth Services, and Kenya Prisons Service officer's salaries by 40 percent.
This follows recommendations of the National Taskforce on Improvement of Terms and Conditions of Service and other Reforms for members of the services.
The task force recommended that the increment of the salaries be spread over three years.
President William Ruto directed the Salaries Remuneration Commission to embark on measures to make the necessary adjustments after receiving the recommendations.
“None of the services covered in the report receive adequate funding or even anything near it. The inappropriate processes and structures involved in recruiting, supporting, deploying and promoting officers renders the entire sector vulnerable to inefficiency, low professional standards, operational ineptitude, ethical lapses and malpractices and general institutional decay,” Ruto indicated.
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“Coupled with this, outdated and inappropriate legal frameworks and organisational structures have created loopholes for malpractice, confusion, overlaps, outright conflict and general inefficiency.”
The task force report further recommended reviewing the pay, medical cover, and welfare of the members of the services.
The task force committee led by former Chief Justice David Maraga handed over the report to Ruto at State House in Nairobi after almost a year of its work.
The report recommended the alignment of the three services to the security sector.
Ruto said some recommendations need parliamentary legislation and may take longer, while others will be implemented immediately.
According to Ruto, the report cited corruption as a major issue in the three services that need to be addressed.
