Mombasa governor Abdulswamad Nassir has decried the bloated wage bill that has continued to haunt his administration.

The county boss says the county has Broken the public finance management act after the latest audit report, exposed Mombasa as an extravagant county in spending on wage bills.

“In the latest audit report and you will see me in the senate answering these questions, we have Broken the PFM act, our wage bill exceeds the acceptable percentage in terms of what is our revenue,” said Nassir.

Nassir says the county pays more than 100 Million shillings as salaries to staff attached to the coast general teaching and referral hospital alone. This means that 25 percent more than what it pays to all county employees.

“Currently as it stands the salaries of employees of county government of Mombasa is about sh 497 million that is before the casuals the community health workers and the rest, those who are attached at the coast general their salaries are at sh 100 Million,” said Nassir.

Nassir says as it stands the county is unable to hire more doctors nor can it increase salaries of medics due to the budget strains. The governor says that the coast general teaching and referral hospital should start working on a law to govern it.

Mombasa governor Abdulswamad Nassir now wants the coast general teaching and referral hospital to come up with a bill to make it independent as other corporations. He assured that even after the transfer of payroll from county to CPGH their pensions will not be affected.

“The pensions remain, they will not be altered, a legal document will be done, to protect that the only issue we are saying is the transfer of the payroll from county government to CPGH on those employees working at the coast general teaching and referral hospital

The governor says he will not compel the hospital board to implement that, even as it emerges that the county governor wants the hospital to stand on its own. He says the changes could be effective if a proper law is followed.

“For those who wish to walk this journey with us, and I wish we will go the same, for those who wish they cannot, we will simply have to rearrange ourselves, it’s simply as that, I simply fail to understand that we are removing payroll from the county government of Mombasa to the coast general hospital, that amount of money will be coming from county government of Mombasa, we need to be seen as a county that is following financial prudence,” said Nassir.