That means those public servants earn more than most Kenyan corporate executives and outstrip the salaries of many of their counterparts in the developed world.

How many senior civil servants and quango bosses earn more than £150,000?

The cheapest seats cost $2.70, which is considered expensive in a country where civil servants earn around $1.10 daily.

The French servants earned from $8 to $12 a month.

The servants that wait on the table, the stable-grooms earn salaries.

For a low-level civil servant earning 400,000 kwanzas a month - about $8 - a 25-cent loaf of bread begins to look like a luxury.

But some civil servants earn more.

Even with this budget support, civil servants earn only 60 percent of their 1978 salaries.

College-educated civil servants earn $85 a month, not enough to pay for a month's parking.

Civil servants do not earn much, but the opportunities for money under the table are so great that people pay bribes to get the jobs.