THE government has approved
employment permits for 9,721 vacancies from July, last year to March,
this year, the National Assembly was told yesterday.
Minister of State in the President’s
Office - Public Service and Good Governance - Ms Angellah Kairuki said
this while moving her ministry’s budget estimates for 2017/2018,
yesterday. She added that 3,174 vacancies were reserved for the Police
Force, 1,000 for Prisons Department, 852 for Fire Brigade and Rescue
Services and 297 for Immigration Department.
During the same period, Ms Kairuki said,
her ministry had allocated at least 50 vacancies for health experts,
who have been deployed to Mloganzila Hospital in Dar es Salaam. She
further said that 4,129 permits were approved for employment of science
and mathematics teachers countrywide, as well as 219 permits to employ
laboratory technicians.
Ms Kairuki told the august House that
verification for unpaid salaries to civil servants amounting to 32.9bn/-
was conducted and already, their demands have been channelled into the
ministry’s data system ready for payment.
She further said that demands of unpaid
salaries to at least 12,973 civil service workers, which amount to
21.6bn/- were still being verified and those who will be approved will
get their dues.
Either, she said, during the same
period, the government removed at least 19,708 workers from the payroll
for various reasons including quitting employment, retirement, deaths
and dismissals. She said the move was aimed at curbing payment of ‘ghost
workers’.
The Minister also pointed out that the
Prevention and Combatting of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) has transferred
376 files to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to seek
permission to take the offenders to court, of which 156 files had
obtained permission.
“At least 702 cases related to
corruption were heard in court, 227 of which were new cases. During the
same period, courts delivered ruling to 264 cases, in which suspects
involved in 161 cases were freed, while suspects in 103 cases were
convicted,” she said.She further added that a sum of 12.3bn/- has been
recovered following an operation conducted by PCCB and the money
returned to government coffers.
Out of the sum, Ms Kairuki said 8bn/-
was rescued from tax evasion rackets, especially through the
introduction of EFDs, 2bn/- was recovered from embezzlement rackets,
912.4m/- from ‘ghost’ salaries and 794.2m/- was recovered from other
sources.
The Minister also told MPs that through
TASAF, more families will continue to benefit from a cash transfer with
202.2bn/- already disbursed from July, last year, to March, this year.
She said 1,358,268 poor families have been identified, out of which
1,110,377 families with a population of 5,895,230 have been enrolled
into the system. She said that the project is conducted in all local
governments of the Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar.
She added that the cash transfer
programme had proved to be a successful method for reducing poverty and
women beneficiaries are more likely to prioritise the welfare of
children. “As household incomes and livelihoods improve, they have been
able to increase consumption of education and health services which are
crucial for their self-sustenance,” the Minister said.
Adding, Ms Kairuki said verification of
poor families registered through TASAF will be sustained and so far they
have discovered 68,914 unqualified families that were registered
countrywide. “All these families have been erased from the programme,”
she said.
Minister Kairuki also said that the
Uongozi Institute has continued to make good strides in sharpening
leaders across the continent, adding, from July, last year, to March,
this year, the institute offered 18 short courses to 631 civil servants,
with a view to improving their performance.
The courses were offered in areas of good governance, communication, vision and mission, strategic leadership and policy.
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