{"id":923267,"date":"2026-07-29T01:13:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/sh6-billion-ghost-workers-scandal-exposed-in-government-payroll-audit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:13:23","slug":"sh6-billion-ghost-workers-scandal-exposed-in-government-payroll-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/sh6-billion-ghost-workers-scandal-exposed-in-government-payroll-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sh6 Billion Ghost Workers Scandal Exposed in Government Payroll Audit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers could be paying close to Sh6 billion in salaries and allowances to ghost workers, according to an Interim Payroll Audit Report. The report, prepared jointly by the Auditor General and the State Department of Public Service and Human Capital, also identified irregularities in public servants\u2019 records&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nairobiwire.com\/2026\/06\/kenya-ghost-workers-payroll-audit-sh5-9-billion-irregular-payments.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Richard Kamau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taxpayers could be paying close to Sh6 billion in salaries and allowances to ghost workers, according to an Interim Payroll Audit Report. The report, prepared jointly by the Auditor General and the State Department of Public Service and Human Capital, also identified irregularities in public servants\u2019 records&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,2459,192],"tags":[5151,11642],"class_list":["post-923267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-billion","category-ghost","category-sports","tag-billion","tag-ghost"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}