Lakes State Payroll Screening Concluded
Elisabeth Janaina
Lakes State Payroll Screening Concluded
More than 480 Lakes State civil servants have had their salaries suspended after a committee appointed to screen the workers completed primary investigations.
By Gabriel Mayom
RUMBEK, 04 October 2013 (Gurtong) – The investigation committee was led by Benjamin Matiok Mangui, who is also serving as Assembly Clerk together with four other members including, James Kon Chadhor from the trade union, Director General of Local Government, Enock Manyuon Public Service director and Manyang Aruor, Secretariat General Kot Kuc-nien.
According to Matiok, the primary investigation was done, and final report will be presented to Lakes State governor within few days.
Matiok said that actual number obtained were 483 names of people
instead of document we found with 474 and suspected that administrators
in various ministries were using proposal names of 474 as a chance to
put in their name of people
they do not like in their ministries.
“There are 483 names, we screened them. People on medical leave were 74 people. Students approved for study leave were 137. People who were reported dead during their services were 29 people. Those who were dismissed or deserted their job were around 79 people. There were 6 people who were not known where they belong or who employed them into ministries,”
He also added that 124 people names were put there wrongly by their administrators.
There are those people who deserted their duties since 2009 are still on active payroll with some who joined the army but their names are in attendance in the ministry payroll and the team recommended that such name should be deleted.
The report was presented on Wednesday to Governor Matur Dhuol by the committee
as they recommended that students who had proper release documents from
their institutions to get paid as well those people who were given sick
leave.
One of student who spoke to media on condition of anonymity said that they get confused on what decision they could undertake against Lakes State government.
In August, the state government on the instruction of the governor
stopped payment of salaries of staff on study leave, medical leave and
those on secondment to non-governmental organisations and instructed all
the Lakes State ministries to effect the
directive.