3 194 ‘GHOST’ CIVIL SERVANTS STILL ON GOVT PAYROLL

MBABANE – A total of 3 194 civil servants are still not accounted for within the government system yet they appear on the payroll.
This was revealed by the Ministry of Public Service in its annual performance report for the financial year 2018/19.

The revelation was that while it was in the process of implementing the recommendations of the Public Service Payroll and Skills Audit Report, the list of 4 510 non-enumerated public servants was sent to the various ministries to account and verify their reasons for absence during the audit.
It was reported that 1 316 had their status accounted for by their ministries.

The report, which was tabled in the House of Assembly by the Minister Christian Ntshangase, further states that a manual tabulation of 30 948 records of academic and professional qualification of the skills audit information had been concluded.

This was under the process of verification of the authenticity of all submitted academic and professional qualifications of public servants.
The ministry reported that of these it verified 4 262 academic and professional certificates by the University of Eswatini.
Of these, a total of 4 037 certificates were confirmed to be authentically conferred by UNESWA.

However, the ministry submitted that verifying the authenticity of certificates acquired from other institutions of higher learning proved to be costly.
Another challenge listed by the ministry was the lack of a budget provision to fully implement the audit recommendations of the skills audit report on skills gap analysis.

 Verification

The ministry said it would continue to intensify the academic certificates verification exercise with UNESWA depending on the availability of funds and further develop a public service skills profile.

Meanwhile, the ministry reported that the case of a public servant in the Ministry of Education and Training, who was suspected to be a ‘ghost’ employee after she deliberately refused to appear for the enumeration, had been investigated and the appropriate remedial action, in accordance with the Public Service regulations, had been taken by the line ministry. 

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