6000 civil servants miss July salary as govt payroll validation bites

July 22, 2016 in Finance, Financial Services, Policy by Editor

KAMPALA, JULY 22 – The salaries of nearly six thousand civil servants in Uganda will not be paid this month after they failed to pass an ongoing validation exercise of the government payroll. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Public Service today, the names of 5,856 people have been deleted from the payroll as part of efforts to rid the civil service of ghost workers.

The ministry adds that from July going forward, civil servants whose names do not appear on the National Identification Register will not get salaries. This comes as the climax of an exercise that kicked off two years ago when an audit of the government payroll at national and local government level found that the identities of 1.9percent of people in Uganda’s 313,979 strong civil service could be traced to an existing identity. The validation exercise involved Reconciling civil servants bio-metric data with the National Identification Register database.