State House has directed civil servants
to start grooming their successors once they reach the age of 58, or two
years before retirement, for smooth succession.
The
President’s chief of staff, also head of public service, Joseph Kinyua,
said because of the wage bill issues, the government will not accept to
extend the retirement age, or retain officers who are above 60 years in
the service.
Mr Kinyua, in a letter to all principal
secretaries, the independent offices of the auditor general and the
controller of budget, state corporations, registrar of the High Court,
the public service commission vice chancellors, teachers service
commission and clerk to the National Assembly, said his office had
received many requests for extensions of the retirement age.
“There
is need to discourage these requests and allow the officers to retire
when they should,” said Mr Kinyua in the letter dated Feb. 14, 2014, and
seen by Sunday Nation.
In March 2009, former
Public Service minister, Dalmas Otieno, through a circular Ref No
OP2/7A, reviewed the mandatory retirement age of public servants from 55
to 60, with the exception of judges, academic staff in public
universities and research scientists, as well as public servants with
disabilities.
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