Bilionea Asigwa
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- Sep 21, 2011
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- Rais Magufuli asema watumishi hewa wamejaa mpaka Ikulu, Ofisi ya Waziri mkuu, Majeshini etc.
- Amuagiza Katibu mkuu kiongozi kuunda "task force" yenye ulinzi maalumu ku-deal na watumishi hewa.
- 10% ya mishahara yote nchini hulipwa kwa watumishi hewa.
- Serikali yapoteza Tshs Billioni 54 kwa mwezi, sawa na zaidi ya Billioni 648 kwa mwaka kulipa mishahara ya watumishi hewa.
PRESIDENT John Magufuli yesterday exposed the presence of 'ghost workers' in his own office, saying an ongoing nationwide search for fake civil servants has revealed that the problem of payroll fraud is prevalent in virtually every public office in the land.
"They (ghost workers) are everywhere ... even in the President's Office, the Prime Minister's Office, the armed forces ... everywhere," Magufuli said yesterday in a State House address.
"Some 4,236 ghost workers have been identified in local government authorities. There are also more than 1,000 such workers at the central government level," he stated.
He noted that while the government spends 583 billion/- each month to pay civil service salaries, an estimated 54 billion/- of that amount is apparently being pinched in the name of phantom workers.
"There are ghost workers in the health ministry, the ministry of finance, everywhere. Every government ministry has ghost workers."
He ordered the State House Chief Secretary, John Kijazi, to ensure that the special task force was provided with enough security and protection to allow them to carry out surprise inspections of government offices as and when directed to do so by the president himself.
Magufuli reiterated his regular caution that the culture of "business as usual" is unacceptable in his administration, further warning that public officials will continue to be taken to task if they fail to do their jobs.
"Tanzanians as a people are suffering while public funds are being squandered. The funds spent in paying ghost workers’ salaries could have been used to finance real development projects," he said.
"I expect all of us who have been entrusted with public leadership positions to take our responsibilities seriously because this country had reached a terrible state," he added.
Source: The Guardian
My take: Hii fedha inayopotea kwa mwaka mmoja tu kulipa watumishi hewa inatosha kabisa kuchonga madawati 6,000,000 tukafuta kabisa tatizo la watoto kukaa chini maana mahitaji ya madawati kwa Tanzania ni Milioni 3.5 kwa shule za msingi na Milioni 2.7 kwa shule zetu za Secondary