The City of Tshwane adamant to drive out 'ghost workers'
The City of Tshwane’s Head Administrator, Mpho Nawa, says the City is in a process of identifying and weeding out so-called ghost workers that have been illegally and unlawfully receiving monthly salaries.
Nawa says more than 14 000 ghost workers have already been identified
The Department of Group Audit and Risk flagged employees it suspected of being employed and embarked on an audit and verification process.
Nawa says the process experienced some technical glitches which led to over 7 000 legitimate employees not receiving their monthly salaries, but he has given the assurance all the employees will be paid.
"This verification process was meant for all the people of Tshwane to know that they are paying salaries of people that are legally on the city’s payroll.
Sadly, this process has uncovered ghost workers that have been fleecing the people of Tshwane of their hard-earned monies by unlawfully, illegally and fraudulently drawing salaries they did not deserve,” says Nawa.
More than 18 000 legitimate employees have so far been verified.
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Nawa says the municipality is hoping to recover the money lost.
"We are obviously going to open a criminal case against those involved in this corruption including the senior officials who might have taken part in putting ghost workers on the system, paying them every month," adds Nawa.
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