Government has asked all cotrolling officers to submit names, numbers of national IDs and employment numbers to the Office of the President and Cabinet as Capital Hill busts ghost workers through the national identity cards. A memo from the Department of Human Resource in the Office of the President and Cabinet say the government is […]
President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika announced Thursday that over 9 million Malawians have registered during the national identity registration exercises which took place from May to October this year. Speaking during the official announcement of mass registration statistics and handing over of registration campaign and operations to the Malawi Government at the Kamuzu Palace in […]
President Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika has described the Malawi National fibre backbone project a timely solution in cleaning up the civil service which, has been for some time, termed home of ghost workers. Speaking Wednesday at Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe while commissioning the long awaited connectivity project, Mutharika said for decades the […]
Salaries for Mbelwa District Council Public Works Program have been delayed for two months as the council is flushing out ghost workers. District Commissioner for Mbelwa District Council Thomas Chirwa said Mzimba north has been hit hard with the ghost worker syndrome. “We are flushing out 200 ghost workers in Mzimba north alone,” he said. […]
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has confirmed that it arrested National Assembly Senior security Assistant Maxwell Komwa for duping the institution through ghost workers. ACB Senior Public Relations Officer Egrita Ndala said Komwa was arrested Wedesday last week and has been released on bail the court of law and trial will commence soon. Ndala said the […]
Group Village Headman Mwenewesha of Karonga is spending nights in police custody for reportedly swindling K590 400 meant for his subjects supposed to work for the the 2016 Malawi Social Action Fund (MASAF 4) Public Works Programm project in his area, Nyasa Times has established. The money, which was meant for Phase 1 and expected […]
The civil service is the key sector of society in a developmental State such as ours. If it is weak, incompetent and disgruntled, the ill-effects will be felt elsewhere. For this reason the reforms that have been undertaken should be resumes and concentrate on the role of the chief secretary. The title chief secretary was […]
Malawi government decision to head count each and every civil servant has met with resistance from some quarters amid fears of ‘ghost workers’ and recruitment without following procedures fears. Ministry of finance spokesperson Nations Msowoya confirmed the exercise is going on now and that his ministry is doing the civil service population census. “We want […]
Press reports on Friday indicated that K47 million in taxpayers money has allegedly been siphoned by officials through payments to ghost workers at Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development the principal secretary Erica Maganga confirmed the embezzlement of funds. The fresh cashgate involves five accounts assistants, three of them working at the ministry headquarters […]