Over 14,000 civil service 'ghosts' given 8-day ultimatum

Cameroon’s Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform, Michel Ange Angouing has invited 14,134 suspected ghost civil servants to clarify their administrative status within eight days.

The operation is aimed at cleaning and putting up the right data of State personnel within the framework of the Integrated Management System of State Personnel and Salaries (SIGIPES II), Buea-based English language biweekly newspaper, The POST reported, citing a release from the minister.

“Failure to do this, their salaries would be suspended and their administrative data would not be transferred to the Integrated Management System of State Personnel and Salaries (SIGIPES II) whose implementation is imminent,” Michel Ange Angouing specified in the release signed on November 12, 2015.

He further stated that, “Those concerned would have to produce documents and submit to their immediate hierarchy charged with forwarding the said documents to the Department of Human Resources of their ministries.”

The list of the suspected ghost civil servants has been put up in the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reform, its Regional Delegations and the ministry’s website, www.minfopra.gov.cm.

Michel Ange equally stated for the sake of efficiency, that sub divisional, divisional and regional delegations of all the concerned administrative services would have to be involved in the exercise.

The cleaning of the State payroll of ghost civil servants comes on the heels of the same operation done for contract workers. The Public Service Minister announced that following the publication of the list of 10,377 ghost contract workers on the State payroll on August 19, 2015, 7,179 of those whose names featured on the list, presented themselves to their various administrations to clarify their situations, representing 69.18 per cent.

He specified that the 3,198 others who failed to clarify their situations up to date, even after their names were again published on November 12, are not recognized by the different administrations and will in the days ahead have their salaries suspended.