{"id":5079,"date":"2014-09-03T13:34:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T06:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5079"},"modified":"2014-09-03T13:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T06:35:28","slug":"ghost-workers-kenya-biometric-register-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/ghost-workers-kenya-biometric-register-launched\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ghost workers&#8217;: Kenya biometric register launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has started biometrically registering all civil servants in an attempt to remove &#8220;ghost workers&#8221; from the government&#8217;s payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Employees who failed to register over the next two weeks would no longer be paid, a government statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The government suspects that thousands of people continue to receive salaries after leaving the civil service.<\/p>\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta was the first person to register &#8211; he has pledged to curb corruption&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-29011628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya has started biometrically registering all civil servants in an attempt to remove &#8220;ghost workers&#8221; from the government&#8217;s payroll. Employees who failed to register over the next two weeks would no longer be paid, a government statement said. The government suspects that thousands of people continue to receive salaries after leaving the civil service. President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,3853,3856,4695,3854,3855,4688,430,257,254,437],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biometrically-registering","tag-curb-corruption","tag-east-africa","tag-ghost-workers","tag-governments-payroll","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uhuru-kenyatta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}