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Charles Beatly PSC consultancy report rejected
22 Feb 2011 at 05:02hrs | Views
Zimbabwe's Public Service Commission (PSC) has rejected a consultants' report critical of PS management and staffing as "incomplete" and "unsubstantiated".
The PSC also said the Public Service Ministry had received only one volume of the substantial report and two other volumes had been published without its knowledge.
It said the report ignored Cabinet's terms of reference and limited itself to checking non-compliance to regulations in relation to police clearance, medical clearance, appointment forms and appointment letters.
The audit report alleged 75,273 Public Servants were "ghost workers" against 112,746 it found to be genuine.
Critics of the audit said the attempt to create a huge "ghost" workforce was designed to make State workers think they were being poorly paid because of corruption within the Public Service system.
"The statistical misrepresentation of facts on the ground is a clear sign of Western machinations on Zimbabwe," the PSC said in a statement.
The row over the audit came as Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti said almost 70 per cent of Zimbabwe's monthly revenue was going towards a ballooning Public Service salaries bill, an amount he said was unsustainable.
"The monthly wage bill of $US$117.6 million (about the same in Australian dollars) leaves very little room for other Government operational requirements as well as projects," Mr Biti said.
"It means certain areas will have to suffer."
The PSC also said the Public Service Ministry had received only one volume of the substantial report and two other volumes had been published without its knowledge.
It said the report ignored Cabinet's terms of reference and limited itself to checking non-compliance to regulations in relation to police clearance, medical clearance, appointment forms and appointment letters.
The audit report alleged 75,273 Public Servants were "ghost workers" against 112,746 it found to be genuine.
Critics of the audit said the attempt to create a huge "ghost" workforce was designed to make State workers think they were being poorly paid because of corruption within the Public Service system.
"The statistical misrepresentation of facts on the ground is a clear sign of Western machinations on Zimbabwe," the PSC said in a statement.
The row over the audit came as Minister of Finance, Tendai Biti said almost 70 per cent of Zimbabwe's monthly revenue was going towards a ballooning Public Service salaries bill, an amount he said was unsustainable.
"The monthly wage bill of $US$117.6 million (about the same in Australian dollars) leaves very little room for other Government operational requirements as well as projects," Mr Biti said.
"It means certain areas will have to suffer."
Source - Byo24News
