The Governments of two African countries have implemented mass sackings of Public Servants after probes involved fraud on a colossal scale.
Tanzanian President, John Magufuli (pictured) said almost 10,000 workers had been dismissed after a Government report found they had faked their qualifications.
“Some of the Government workers are accused of falsifying exam certificates while others are said to have passed relatives’ qualifications off as their own,” Mr Magufuli said.
The numbers equate to two per cent of the country’s total Public Service.
After receiving the final report, Mr Magufuli said the named workers must resign or face prosecution, which could result in sentences of up to seven years in jail.
“The 9,932 employees recruited on the basis of false diplomas will not receive their salary for this month and have to leave their positions immediately,” Mr Magufuli said.
“The vacant posts will be filled by qualified persons as soon as possible,” he said.
In Zimbabwe, the Treasury has struck off 3,000 names from the Government’s payroll after a recent headcount revealed thousands of ghost workers.
The Public Service Commission (PSC) recently undertook a biometric registration exercise for all Public Servants under which personal and educational details were captured by both the PSC and the Registrar-General’s Office.
Secretary of the PSC, Jonathan Wutawunashe said around 3,000 had so far been taken off the payroll, and the audit was still ongoing.
Dodoma/Harare, 9 June 2020
