More than 7,000 government employees cannot be accounted for. This is according to the latest Auditor General’s Payroll and Personnel Verification Audit report. It indicates that out of 522,478 supposed active employees expected, a total of 7,823 remained unaccounted for at the end of the enumeration exercise.
The Auditor General has therefore recommended to the Controller and Accountant General’s Department, CAGD to ensure termination of payment to the unaccounted employees on the payroll.
Heads of MDAs are also to ensure the full recovery of the unearned salaries from the affected persons.
The report also indicated mismatch of salary grades of some 12,000 employees when compared with their actual grades on their appointment or promotion letters.
The Auditor General has also recommended, that Heads of MDAs/MMDAs together with CAGD should ensure that the affected employees are appropriately placed.
The report also showed that owing to the failure by CAGD to act on feedback from respective management heads, 6,307 employees declared as “discontinued” through the ESPV system, continued to receive unearned salaries.
The Auditor General has urged CAGD to terminate the records of all the discontinued employees on the payroll and ensure the full recovery of all the unearned salaries.
For efficiency, the report also recommended a seamless integration of the ESPV system with the payroll system, thus resulting in prompt update of employee records.
The report again noted that the payroll system had not been properly configured to terminate automatically, records of employees who attain the statutory retirement age.
The review showed, that names of 84 employees who had attained the statutory retirement age, and had no contract extension, were still on the payroll.
To ensure full compliance with the provisions of the Constitution, it urged CAGD to ensure proper configuration of the payroll.
