{
  "id": 15031643,
  "title": "CS Ruku suspends 84 govt HR officials over Ksh6.2 billion payroll fraud",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/cs-ruku-suspends-84-govt-hr-officials-over-ksh6-2-billion-payroll",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-16T19:34:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/cs-ruku-suspends-84-govt-hr-officials-over-ksh6-2-billion-payroll-fraud"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Ministry of Public Service has directed 84 human resource officials in the Kenya Prisons Service, Kenya Police Service and the Ministry of Health to proceed on 30 working days of leave over their involvement in a KSh6.2 billion government payroll fraud. Public Service Cabinet Secretary Geoffrey Ruku, while speaking to the media in his […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}