SUDAN
Sudan’s Ministry of Labour and Social Development has promised to give top priority to compensation for Public Servants arbitrarily dismissed during the regime of deposed dictator, Omar Al Bashir.
The Ministry said a committee had been formed to investigate the dismissals, made between June 1989 and December 2018.
Under-secretary at the Ministry, Tahani Burhaneldin said the former officers would either receive their jobs back or get financial compensation.
During the 30 years of the Al Bashir regime, arbitrary dismissal was frequently used as a weapon against Public Servants who were accused of opposing the Government or ruling National Congress Party in any way.
More recently, scores of workers were summarily dismissed for taking part in marches, protests, and vigils related to the December 2018 popular uprising and revolution that culminated in the overthrow of Mr Al Bashir.
Ms Burhaneldin said compensation could be extended to the families of those officers who had since died.
First Under-secretary at the Ministry of Culture and Information, El Rashid Saeed said all dismissed workers under the age of 65 could return to the Ministries and Agencies where they had previously worked.
Those over 65 would be entitled to a pension.
“The Government is considering the possibility of also paying appropriate compensation according to the classification of cases and personal files,” Mr Saeed said.
“However, in the case of those who have died, their families will be compensated according to the functional grades in the Civil Service until the moment they would have entered the pension system – our overall aim is to achieve justice.”
Khartoum, 27 November 2019
