South Sudan starts screening workers to weed out ghosts

The national ministry of public services and human resource development said it has started screening workers on the government payroll to weed out ghosts.

“Our request for the increase of salaries of civil servants and organized forces is achieved, this is one way of improving human resource, another is human resource audit, the salaries of July and August are being paid by committees,” said Julius Tabuley, the deputy  minister of public services and human resource development.

 He was speaking during the welcoming ceremony of James Pitia Morgan, the national minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation by Kajokeji community in Juba on Saturday.

 “We have moved to payment and we have manpower head count, where we need to know the employees, we might have had some ghosts that have been receiving salaries, we want to weed them out and clean the pay roll,” Tabuley said.

He said the ministry of public services and human resource development is undertaking reforms within the civil service to ensure transparency and accountability to the people of South Sudan.

“The ministry of public services and human resource development is charged with the responsibility of reforming the human resource of this country, so that it is responsive to the need of the people,” Tabuley said.

“What we will recover from ghost workers might help us in effecting salary increment, the work of the committee is intended to improve the human resource of this country, without competent human resource you cannot attain any development,” he added.

The national government recently increased salaries of civil servants and organized forces by 400 percent.