Stakeholders in the labour industry have implored Government to undertake a biometric payroll registration of the civil service to weed out alleged ghost workers. Government has been making efforts since last year to reduce its wage bill and open up fiscal space for developmental projects but there have been challenges.
Growth in the public wage bill has been outstripping the growth in real gross domestic product .
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