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Tanzanian govt pays 3.8mln USD to 'ghost workers' in three months

Xinhua, April 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

The government of Tanzania said on Tuesday it has paid 3.8 million U.S. dollars to more than 7,795 ghost workers from January to March this year.

Angela Kairuki, the east African nation's Minister of State in the President's Office responsible for Public Service Management and Good Governance, said the ghost workers were identified during the ongoing drive to identify them across the country.

Regional commissioners have identified 4,317 ghost workers in the public service between March 1 and April 4 following a directive by President John Magufuli.

President Magufuli made the directive during the swearing-in of regional commissioners last month.

He gave the regional commissioners two weeks until the end of March to complete the identification of phantom workers.

Ghost workers refer to those who are on the payroll of an organization but do not work for the organization.

The Controller and Auditor General (CAG) said in his 2013/2014 report that billions of taxpayers' money were being paid to ghost workers. Endit