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thezimbabwean.com |
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement, Internet Governance
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Zimbabwe |
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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Efforts by the government to weed out ghost workers are moving at a snail’s pace with revelations that only four out of 33 government ministries have had their audit verified, amid reports of a critical shortage of staff crippling service delivery in the public service.
The shortage of staff in various departments follows the freeze on recruitment by the government as it works to put in place a clean register of its employees. The government, through the Ministry of Public Service, employed the services of Ernest and Young to audit the civil servants register and weed out suspected ghost workers.
Two years down the line, nothing substantive has come out to prove or disapprove the existence of ghost workers. Public Service Deputy Minister Andew Langa said there was a need for the government to know the actual number of its employees before making plans to hire new ones. He said committees had been set up at a ministerial level to verify the findings of the audit in 33 ministries.
“We have set up committees that are doing the verification of the findings of the audit that was conducted some two years ago. When the process is complete we will take our report to the principals with clear recommendations. So far the committees tasked with the work of verification have done only four ministries out of 33 ministries,” said Langa.
He could not, however, be drawn into revealing the findings of the verification team on the four ministries. “I can not at this juncture reflect more on the preliminary findings of the government on the issue, the time is not yet ripe for that as the exercise is still in progress.”
The deputy minister insisted that government was committed to weeding out ghost workers that were perceived to be gobbling the country’s financial resources. He conceded that although the delay in concluding the audit had crippled efforts to recruit personnel in the most critical sectors such as health and education, the shortage was not deliberate.
“We are very much aware that most rural clinics and hospitals are understaffed. It is not the government’s deliberate intention to create an artificial shortage of personnel in critical areas such as health and education sectors. Our fiscal space is restricting us and we hope the need to establish a clean register will go a long way in helping our efforts to match the resources to the genuine workers as well as establish the number of personnel required,” he added.
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