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Mozambique: Irregularities in police salaries persist – AMOPAIP | Watch

7:08 CAT | 12 Sep 2023

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The Mozambican Police Association (AMOPAIP)on Monday complained about persistent irregularities in the payment of salaries to the corporation’s officers and urged the Government to provide clarification.

“Salaries continue to go out in a way that we cannot understand. Some receive it and others don’t. Those who do receive continue to have a discount that no one can justify and no one comes forward to explain,” AMOPAIP president Nazário Muanambane said during a press conference in Maputo.

On August 11, President Filipe Nyusi demanded an urgent solution to the delays and discrepancies caused by the application of the TSU, warning that the timely payment of salaries was “sacred” and that he would not tolerate “excuses”.

Filipe Nyusi was reacting to the controversy that is taking place in various sectors of the Mozambican Public Administration, namely security, education and health forces, who complain about unpaid salaries due to the migration to the new salary table.

Clarification

The president of the police association wants explanations from “those responsible” on the discounts and the delays in paying salaries to officers, while acknowledging that there had been “gradual payment” of salaries.

“We don’t need two people to be paid today. (…) Why aren’t salaries paid on time to all members of the police as they were receiving” before the implementation of the new salary table, Muanambane asked.

In the case of the Defence and Security Forces, and a few days after the general commander of the Police, Bernardino Rafael, recognized the two months of outstanding salaries for members of the corporation, Filipe Nyusi ordered that payment be made via the previous platforms until the problems were overcome, as the commander himself had requested.

According to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, delays in paying salaries to the Defence and Security Forces are due to registration problems in the new payment system, taking into account the migration to the single system that began in June, whereas previously payments were made via the ministries of Interior and of Defence.

The TSU was approved in 2022 in order to eliminate asymmetries and keep the state’s wage bill under control in the medium term, but implementation caused salaries to skyrocket by around 36%, from 11.6 billion meticais/month (€169 million) to 15.8 billion meticais/month (€231 million).

The new salary matrix in the State has 21 levels, from 8,756 to 165,758 meticais (from 134 to 2,580 euros), instead of 103 levels, as was the case previously.

Source: Deutsche Welle / Focus Televisão