The Democratic Republic of Congo lists its officers to combat

The Democratic Republic of Congo has not had a digital database of its officials since independence in 1960. To remedy this, public administrations have for several weeks been asked to declare their workers to the Ministry of Public Services. In addition, the state primarily wants to sort out fictitious employees or cumulators who seal the accounts.

as reported from Kinshasa,Pascal Mulegwa

In the multifunctional space that houses the analysts, the work requires a lot of concentration: the declarative lists of public administrations are stacked on the tables and examined with a magnifying glass.

“The case that seems complicated to us, [c’est quand] we find agents who do not know how to justify their registration number, says Jonathan Ilunga, department manager. They give you numbers that are probably theirs, but they are not. So they come up with documents that are fake. ”

On the same lists, the agents also find cumulators. As an official who “is in an X administration and is in a Y administration always with the same registration number”, he explains.

TheThe state would lose significant resources in wages. The work of making the file more reliable is carried out by the administration department in the state’s personnel database.

“At the end of each certification, we will draw up a report signed by the administration and us,” explains the site manager, Jean-Baptiste Ndefu. It is obvious that we arrive at a certain moment with a file where we can not have duplicates, where we can not have cumulators or counterfeiters who work with loan numbers. They clearly need to be dismissed. The goal that is sought with control of the labor force is only to stop also controlling wages. ”

In the meantime, this mass consists on the basis of the declarations from the administrations directly to the budget, which is why fraud is regularly condemned.

Every month, about one million people are on government wages. At the end of 2020, a preliminary investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed that more than 130,000 fictitious agents and about 43,000 duplicates improperly take advantage of a state salary. But the investigation has so far shown no results.

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