MWANZA Region, in its second verification exercise on ghost workers, has discovered a total of 1,057 more such workers who did not show up during the verification process which was held from April 18 to June 3, this year.
In the first phase of the verification
exercise the region led nationwide by having a total of 334 ghost
workers. Mwanza Regional Commissioner (RC), Mr John Mongela, said this
here yesterday when he was speaking to both the regional Secretariat and
District Council civil servants.
“In order to implement President John
Magufuli’s order of removing ghost workers from all payrolls, I created
two teams which were led by Assistant Administrative Secretaries. “The
effort also involved senior officials from my office,” he explained.
He said the teams discovered 28,068
workers who were paid salaries in February, this year, in both the
regional secretariat and council. A total of 27,416 are from councils
and 652 from the regional secretariat.
“The council’s workers who showed up during the verification exercise totalled 26,359 and those who did not attend were 1,057.
These are the ones whom we consider to
be ghost workers,” he said. He said the region had made a detailed
physical analysis of employees who did not come during the verification
exercise at the council level and found that 367 out of 1,057 workers
who did not attend were paid a total of 2,162, 730, 686/-.
He said among those workers 214 were
absent during the same period of verification and did not work. But they
were paid salaries amounting to 1,597,479, 435/- . “ The teams also
found out that there were 74 workers who were retired but were paid
226,677,112/-.
Some civil servants had resigned but
were paid 54,383, 254/-,” he said. He added: “But the teams also found
the presence of three workers who were fired. Two of them had their
salary payments missing but one was paid 332,100/-.”
He said, however, that the team found
the existence of two public servants who contested in the 2015 general
elections were paid a total amount of 12,102, 000/-.
“But the saddest scenario involved the
existence of 33 deceased servants who were paid 64,515,879/-. Now I do
not know if the money (salaries) has followed them into their graves,”
he quipped.
He also said that the verification
exercise of ghost workers has revealed the presence of 31 public
servants who were not known to their employers but were paid salaries.
“This is funny, how possible is it for an employer to pay a salary to an
unknown worker?
For example, in Ukerewe District Council
there are public servants who are in the payroll but are not known to
their employer,” he said.
He added that the region has revealed a
total of 689 civil servants who did not attend the verification
exercise, but they deserve to be paid their salaries due to various
reasons.
He said 416 servants were transferred to
other work stations, 29 were in studies, 18 were sick, 18 others were
not having specific reasons and five were on vacation. In the regional
secretariat, he said, 35 workers were assessed.
One had died but his bank account had
received a total of 3,980,000/-. He said one servant was dismissed, but
his account got a total of 3,617,820/- and one worker who resigned had
3,556,860/- deposited in his bank account.
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