Kakamega county employees have accused the county of not remitting their loan deductions to banks for the past four months.
This is despite deducting the money from their salaries.
The employees said this has made banks to blacklist them and blocked them from accessing other financial services.
Some said they had hoped to get loans from the banks to pay school fees for their children.
“Those of us who do e-banking are told to clear with our employer whenever we try to apply for e-loans,” said one of the employees who declined to be named.
“I am stuck because I have been blacklisted and cannot even access a top-up loan from my bank.”
Another worker told the Star that his sacco loan guarantors had been given notices of deduction after he defaulted on his loan.
“When I went to the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Database, they told me that they were looking into it adding that there were other cases," he said.
IPPD is a system designed to capture data on personnel and payroll.
Pay slips seen by the Star indicate that teachers have had deductions made on their salaries for the past four months.
However, the same has not been remitted to their banks and saccos.
Reached for comment, county Finance executive Livingston Imbayi said the matter has not been brought to his attention.
“The right person to provide you with an answer is Finance Chief Officer Geophita Mwajuma,” he said.
Mwajuma said the county has received its exchequer disbursements up to November.
"We cannot borrow to pay loans by staff. As a community were petty. We must outgrowth these pettiness if we have to compete nationally,” she said.
Deputy Governor Ayub Savula said that he will counter check the complaints by the staff.
"I am not aware that that is happening. I am currently leaving for China but I will check with relevant departments," he said.
