Hungwe vows to flush out ghost works

Vincent Hungwe, the newly-appointed Public Service Commission (PSC) chairperson,  has vowed to flush out ghost workers, as part of efforts to improve efficiency and manage government's ballooning wage bill.

Addressing journalists after being sworn-in as a member of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) at State House yesterday, Hungwe said he will first seek to clarify the status of ghost employees and act on them to restore sanity in the public service.

"This is the beauty of living in a constitutional democracy, people make observations, some of them might actually be accurate, but the critical issue is that for any institution to be able to identify those challenges in terms of scope, magnitude and depth you need to undertake an audit to the extent that there is not any audit that has been undertaken. That audit will be undertaken to establish the veracity of ghost workers being in existence and out of it we understand the scope, nature and magnitude and therefore the appropriate measures to be taken," he said.

Hungwe's new tasks involve sitting on various commissions, among them the Defence Forces Commission, Police Commission and the Prisons and Correctional Services Commission.