In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), public finances are still not healthy. Following the resumption of the consolidation of civil servants ‘census in April last year, Congolese Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Lihau confirmed at the Council of Ministers’ meeting this weekend that the payroll lists of civil servants and agents for the State are full of duplicates, fictitious agents losing $ 240 million a year . The civil servants’ union is still confused, but the authorities assure that there is even more than has been revealed.
as reported from Kinshasa, Pascal Mulegwa
Every month, about one million people are on government wages. And it is by wanting to establish a public administration reference file (FRAP) that the disputed cases were discovered, says Jean-Baptiste Ndefu, head of the public service’s digital personnel database. “This is partly because we do not yet have exhaustive information from both the central services and the provinces. The more data we have, the more information we will have and I have no doubt that the harvest is bigger than what we have today ”.
The lists do not only refer to cumulative figures, duplicates and fictitious uses taken from the declaration information from the administration. There is also another category: “there are also cases of abandonment agents continuing to get paid. Because there are banks that today do not allow administrations to act quickly and block all these cases ”.
On the union side of the public administration, Fidèle Kihangi believes her president that the work is not finished. “It’s a job that was done without associating us. We are now asking for a commission to certify the work done by the government, so that we can all be sure that what we are declaring is true and that tomorrow we will decide to block all these fictitious or cumulators that it will not there are no complaints, complaints afterwards ”.
According to the minutes of the Council of Ministers, a commission has been set up as chair of the Minister of Public Service. It remains to be seen whether union members will be a part of it.
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