Tanzanian President John Magufuli. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has sacked 9,932 public workers after a report found that they were using fake certificates.
Speaking
after receiving the report on public servants certificates verification
on Friday, he directed
that salaries for the 9,000 plus employees for this month be withheld.
that salaries for the 9,000 plus employees for this month be withheld.
He also directed the Prime Minister, Kassim Majaliwa, to declare the posts vacant.
“They are thieves like any other thieves… you cannot perform if you don’t have deserving qualifications,” he said.
He
further ordered that others whose certificates have been found to have
discrepancies be treated legally “so that they could be jailed for seven
years as per the law.”
The Tanzanian leader noted that
operations to verify public servants' certificates will compliment an
earlier exercise by the government to root out phantom employees.
He said the State was losing Tsh19.84 billion monthly (around Sh915 million) to ghost workers.
Tanzania said that a total of 435,000 civil servants
had their certificates verified, with 9,932 of them found to be in
possession forged certificates.
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