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Mozambique: 12,000 state employees fail to present “proof of life”
1:10 CAT | 30 Aug 2018
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Speaking to reporters at the end of the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) on Tuesday, the government spokesperson, the Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism, Ana Comoana, announced that over 12,000 state employees did not present the obligatory annual “proof of life” in 2017. In order to ensure that the state only pays wages to people who really exist, every state employee must, in the month of their birthday, go in person to a specified government office to show that they are still alive.
In 2017, the government hoped that 335,825 state employees would produce “proof of life”, but in fact only 323,748 did so – which was 96.4 per cent of the target. This does not necessarily mean that all the missing 12,077 are ghost workers. In some more remote areas, it may be difficult for workers to go in person to the relevant office.
Comoana said that only 513 of the missing employees have been suspended. The total monthly wages that they used to receive came to around 28.7 million meticais (487,000 US dollars, at current exchange rates). She said that the situation of each of the other 11,564 is still being confirmed.
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Source: AIM
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