STAE contracted staff in Niassa demand unpaid expenses – CIP Mozambique Elections

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STAE contracted staff in Niassa demand unpaid expenses – CIP Mozambique Elections

9:07 CAT | 11 Sep 2024

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Several contracted staff are accusing the Niassa provincial STAE of failing to pay them expenses owing from the voter registrations of 2023 and 2024. The Provincial Elections Commission says it is aware of the case, and is advising STAE to give the staff what is owing to them.

These are staff from the STAE data processing centre who travelled to the districts to do their work, but whose expenses have not yet been paid.

Taibo António, the deputy head of the Elections Operations Department in Niassa, says that in last year’s elections, the staff went to the districts in the province to do their voter registration work without any payment of their expenses. The same is happening this year.

After three months of work, the staff, feeling the delay in payments for 2023 and 2024, contacted Niassa Provincial STAE and have not received any satisfactory answer. “So far we are not sure whether the Director-General is aware of the situation, since we have discovered that everything we claimed has not been reported to STAE-Central. The financial head of the institution said that he drew up a list of all the debts and sent it to Maputo. But that was a lie, because he only delivered the documents last month“

Uísque Mário, one of the staff who has not been paid, says that when they appeal to the STAE Director, he says he takes no responsibility for the debts.

“CIP Eleições” has tried, without success, to contact Niassa provincial STAE to find out what happened to prevent the staff from being paid for the 2023 and 2024 voter registration.

For his part, Xavier Waceda, Chair of the Niassa Provincial Elections Commission, says he is aware that the staff have requested payment of an expense, which has so far not been paid.

“The STAE management recognizes that the work was done outside of the period proposed for the staff to remain in the districts with municipalities during the registration, because the reality on the ground required that they stay, according to the intervention of the STAE director. The STAE management recognizes that the staff are entitled to demand this payment”. Waceda said he has also advised the Director to find a peaceful mechanism for making the payment.

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