About 23,000 civil servants have failed to provide ‘proof of life’

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About 23,000 civil servants have failed to provide ‘proof of life’

8:41 CAT | 13 Jul 2017

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A total of 23,716 Mozambican state officials and agents failed to take the biometric life test in the first operation of the kind held in the country, according to a statement distributed yesterday.

The note sent by the Centre for the Development of Information and Systems of the State (CEDSIF), a governmental body, indicates that the number corresponds to 6.8 percent of the 357,430 state employees and agents registered in the electronic personnel system.

The majority of these (18,495) have never received salary via the e-Sistafe processing system, so “work is under way to clarify their link to the state and the motivation and conditions under which they were registered”, the communique adds.

The lack of proof of life ‘determines the suspension of salary with effect from the month following the anniversary’ of the official who failed to provide it, says CEDSIF.

Data collected between July 1 and December 20 2015 revealed that 8,765 state officials and agents were falsely enrolled in the system, as the government admitted in May, because they were either discharged, fired, suspended, retired, deceased, expelled, deployed or under special leave. Those officials were immediately taken off the system.

Of the 8,765 state employees who were illegitimately active, it was found that 2,892 were paid at least once through e-Sistafe”, the text reads. “There are ongoing actions to clarify the irregularities detected and, if appropriate, secure the administrative and criminal accountability of those involved,” the government says.

Starting this year, every state employee or agent must provide proof of life during the month of his or her birthday. According to CEDSIF, a total of 324,949 state employees (about 93.2 percent of the total) have taken the life test.

Source: Lusa