Casual workers cleaning the city should be paid through the City management, Achar says.

Kisumu CEC in charge of Finance Nerry Achar at his office in Kisumu today.He says the casual workers cleaning the City should be paid by a private company that was contracted by the City Management of Kisumu-Photo By Dickson Odhiambo
By Dickson Odhiambo

August 30, 2019.

Casual workers cleaning the city should be paid through the City management, Achar says.

All Casual workers doing the cleaning work within the streets of Kisumu City should be paid through a private company that the City Management of Kisumu contracted for the job.

Kisumu County Executive Committee Member in charge of Finance and Economic Planning Nerry Achar says a private company known as Monovick was contracted by the City Management of Kisumu and hired the casual workers tasked with cleaning the city hence they should be paid through it via the Management of Kisumu City.

 Addressing the press at his office in Kisumu today, Achar said the issue of the casual workers cleaning the city claiming that they have not been paid their monthly salaries for five months should not arise because already the company contracted for the work has been paid.

Achar says the casual workers have not been permanently employed by the County Government of Kisumu but on a temporary basis by the said private company.

“The Casuals workers cleaning the city of Kisumu are not employed by the County Government of Kisumu but are temporarily been employed by a private company known as Monovick Entreprises.We have paid the Company as per the contract we signed with it,” Achar said.

He says if the private company has not paid the workers as alleged then it should do so because the County Government of Kisumu through the City Management of Kisumu has duly paid it as per the contract.

“If it is true that the company has not paid the workers, then we will have a meeting with it so as to know the reasons as to why,” Achar adds.

Achar says already the Kisumu County have instituted a way on wanting to recruit workers who will be doing cleaning activities within the city upon employed by the County Government of Kisumu.

“The Kisumu County Public Service Board intends to employ workers who will be doing cleaning activities within the city and they will be employed through the City Management of Kisumu,” Achar adds.

Achar at the same time say that already the county government of has paid the employees’ salaries for the month of July this year, adding that most of the employees have received their July pay with only those with Bank accounts at Equity Bank are the ones who are yet to receive their salary.

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