Yaounde: Helpless Biya wants heads of State predators to roll

Embattled President Paul Biya has asked his cronies to dislodge over 9000 predators, who have been plundering tax payers’ money, under the guise of State workers.  

The ghost workers have been marauding the State through undue salaries.

Biya’s instruction to his bloated Government is contained in a recent circular pertaining to the 2018 State budget.

The instruction is to enable Government reduce the State wage bill.

 In 2000, Government carried out a census of State workers that revealed that there were over 7,000 ghost workers, who were unduly preying on the State payroll.

Since then the number of ghost worker has increased to over 9000.

From investigation carried out by Cameroon Concord, it was realised that there are genuine civil servants who earn more than two salaries and take home fraudulent allowances every month.

Tongues are already wagging that Biya’s instruction will yield little or no dividends, since those who are defrauding the State of tax payers’ money are his close aides.

 The head count, which will begin in 2018, compels every Ministry and State department to provide an exhaustive list of all those effectively working.

The Inter-ministerial Committee that will carry out the exercise will have to pay particular attention on certain Ministries where fraud and complicity are rampant.

The Ministries of Secondary Education, Basic Education, Public Health, Agriculture and Rural Development and Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries have been cited.

It is reported that besides those who abandon their jobs but not salaries, many civil servants extend their study leaves without permission.

In order to fish out such public service criminals, Government is designing a project to merge Operation Antelope and SIGIPES operation carried out by the Ministry of Public Service and Administrative Reforms.

The Operation Antelope is the computerisation of salary.