The president of Tanzania has ordered
the immediate dismissal of more than 9,900 civil servants after a nationwide academic certificate verification uncovered workers with forged school and
college certificates.
The
crackdown on fake degree holders comes after another purge launched in March
last year discovered more than 19,700 “ghost workers” on the east African
country’s public sector payroll.
“We
have been working hard to create new jobs while there are people in government
who hold fake degrees,” President Magufuli said on Friday after receiving a report on
academic fraud in the civil service at the University of Dodoma(UDOM).
Magufuli added,“The
government had also been losing 238bn shillings (£82m) each year to ghost
workers, from today they have to be removed from the payroll and with their willing have to stop immediately from engaging with any task to where they were employed before 15th May”.
Tanzania
spends more than £200m a month to pay civil servants’ salaries. The government
believes the public wage bill is bloated, with more than 550,000 civil servants
at national and local levels.
“These
people occupied government positions but had no qualifications ... they robbed
us just like other common criminals,” he said.
The
president added that the audit had also found that the academic records of more
than 1,500 civil servants were used by multiple people, while more than 11,500
government employees had incomplete academic records.
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