Government to roll out app monitoring civil servants’ attendance, working hours
Ruku said the app will help monitor whether public officers are at their work stations, on leave, attending workshops or absent during working hours.
Civil servants will soon be required to install a government mobile application on their phones to track their whereabouts and work activities, as part of a new accountability measure announced by Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku.
Speaking in Samburu on Wednesday, Ruku said the app will help monitor whether public officers are at their work stations, on leave, attending workshops or absent during working hours.
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It will also record the time they report to and leave their offices, in a move aimed at curbing lateness and absenteeism.
“The ministry has embarked on a project to ensure we come up with a mobile application, which every civil servant in the republic will download and it will be able to tell us whether you are at your work station, on leave, at the workshop and what you are doing, what time you reported to your station, what time you left, whether you are on maternity or paternity leave,” Ruku said
He insisted that anyone earning a salary from the government must be responsible, adding that civil servants should emulate the work ethic of President William Ruto.
“Anyone drawing a salary from the government must be responsible like the President is responsible. Everyone must take their jobs seriously; that is the only way we can develop our nation,” he stated.
The announcement follows a series of surprise visits by Ruku to government offices across the country, where he found several offices closed as early as 8 am while citizens waited outside for services. The most recent incident occurred at government offices in Nyeri.
“I want to urge all public servants to ensure they serve the people of Kenya diligently, get to their work stations on time. I have been in various places, and I have noticed some weaknesses among them reporting late and absenteeism,” he said.
Earlier this week, the CS warned that civil servants who report late or fail to show up at their duty stations will be treated as ghost workers and will not be allowed to draw public salaries.
“Everybody working in any government office who doesn’t report to work at the required time, and those who report and disappear, we will be treating them as ghost workers,” Ruku said.
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