‘GHOST’ EMPLOYEES: ARMY REFUSES TO BE COUNTED
MBABANE – Hold your horses!
Uprooting ghost employees had nothing to do with members of the Umbutfo Eswatini Defence Force (UEDF) as they were not enumerated. According to the Oxford Dictionary, to enumerate is to establish the number of something. On the other hand, a ghost employee is someone recorded on the payroll system, but who does not work for the particular institution or organisation paying his/her salary. It is said there are three types of ghost employees. There could be fictitious persons who are invented by someone with influence; real persons who through collaboration and or kick-backs for jobs are featured on the payroll and real people who later leave and organisation or die.
About a month back, the Minister of Public Service, Christian Ntshangase, instructed all principal secretaries to account for personnel serving in the ministries of government they lead.
Following this instruction, the ministry was able to account for 2 804 civil servants in 30 days – leaving 390 public officials not enumerated. This means that for the second time, the Ministry of Public Service has failed to enumerate soldiers. The exercise to enumerate civil servants was in line with accounting for all personnel remunerated from government coffers.
The country has 18 ministries with full-time ministers; with the Ministry of Defence having an acting minister in the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Thuli Dladla.
The Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Defence is Andreas Mathabela. He said UEDF personnel were not enumerated as it bordered on the security of the kingdom. Without stipulating the law, Mathabela said: “The law says that there is someone who has to enumerate soldiers”. He said it was not anybody who had that prerogative. His response was consistent with that made in 2015 by consultants during the Public Service Payroll and Skills Audit exercise. The consultants reported that they struggled to enumerate and verify the payroll for the armed forces.
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