Speaking in Dar es Salaam last week, the Assistant Director in the President’s Office, Public Service Management Peter Mushi said: “We have been able to solve to a larger extent the issue of ghost workers where the government was losing a lot of monies in salary,” Mushi said.
He said the new system allows managers to monitor any changes that have been made on an individual’s information.
Most countries in the region are battling with the issue of ghost workers which has been costing governments dearly.
Mushi said the money saved is being used for other government development projects.
The system has helped the government to eliminate and save cash in terms of salaries to some 34, 645 public servants from government payroll who were either already retirees’ or were already demised but had their monthly salaries updates in the former system.
“The government has been losing lot of monies due to few dishonest workers who were taking advantages of others by enriching themselves through the accounts of the retirees and dead workers,” Mushi said.
The Information and Communication Telecommunication (ICTT) infrastructure that has been improved in the country in the recent years has helped to a larger extent to make sure that personal data information is easily accessed at the central point thereby minimizing fraud that might be associated tampering with ones account.
He said the government did recruitment of some 16,000 teachers early this year and entering all of them on the government payroll system has reduced fast tracked access to information from the newly employers than if government officers were to bring the files at the head offices in Dar es salaam.
According to Priscus Kiwango, the Director of Information Resource Management in the Presidents’ Office, Public Service Management a number of government offices at the districts level were already using the new payroll system using the National Information Communication Technology Broadband Backbone (NICTBB).
He said there has been a lot of new development in most of government offices including access to internet resulting from the mushrooming of mobile operators in the country and thus lessening the time to enroll a new employee with the government payroll which currently serves only 478,000 public servants.
This also means that the newly introduced system will mean that most government workers who have been enrolled with the system will be able to get their salaries on time upon being employed.
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