Government hunts down fictitious pensioners

The Ministry of finance will embark on an exercise to identify actual number of eligible pensioners and holders of public officies who died throughout the national territory.

Tomorrow 25 February, the Ministry of Finances (Minfi) will proceed with the launch of the operation to cross out names of pensioners on this scheme who have died but their names remain in government files.

The operation which will take place throughout the national territory, over a period of three months, is part of the remediation of files.

According to the head of the cleaning of the balance cell file at Minfi, Mohamadou Ousman, the measure aims to improve the quality of public expenditure, particularly concerning the payment of salary and pensions as well as to control the number of pensioners scheme.

Above that, as pointed out by Mohamadou Ousman, "the balance file of pensioners is full of fictitious pensioners. Indeed, with regard to temporary pensions of orphans, it was observed that some rights holders continue to collect pensions while they have reached maturation or even exceeded the required age.

Another phenomenon observed by personnel of the Minfi: "There are deceased public officers whose pensions continue to be paid to banks".

Thus, the Minfi and teams of the Ministry of public service and administrative reform (Minfopra) will unfold during the census period, at the level of accounting positions with banks to identify those involved.

"After the identification, we will exploit the received data and analyses", says the head of the cleaning of files. Among the observations made in previous censuses, nearly 13,000 fictitious agents were detected. "They have been suspended from balance.

In 2006, a similar operation was conducted by the Department, but did not include agents in activity, nor the deceased residents. "Ideally, the renewal of these operations must occur every five years.