Tanzania announces 15,000 vacancies for civil servants

A senior official with the Tanzanian government on Wednesday announced 15,000 new job vacancies for civil servants.

Laurian Ndumbaro, the Permanent Secretary in the President's Office responsible for Public Service and Good Governance, said the government will employ 15,000 new workers by the end of June this year.

"The government is aware that there are areas that have been affected by the recent sacking of more than 9,000 civil servants," Ndumbaro told a news conference in the political capital Dodoma.

He asked affected institutions to submit their employment requirements as soon as possible.

Last week, Tanzanian President John Magufuli sacked 9,932 public servants found with fake academic certificates after verification of their academic qualifications.

The President sacked the public servants shortly after he had received a report on public servants' verification of their academic qualifications.

He ordered that April salaries for the 9,932 sacked servants should be withheld.

Magufuli directed Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa that posts which were held by the 9,000-plus unqualified public servants should be advertised immediately.

The President ordered that other civil servants whose certificates have been found with discrepancies should be prosecuted in courts of law.

He said the crackdown on fake academic certificates for public servants will complement an earlier exercise by the government to identify phantom employees.

In May last year Tanzania removed more than 10,000 phantom public servants from its public sector payroll after a nationwide audit. Endit