Gov´t introduces software to manage workers on secondment.

The software was presented to top executives and managers of public and para-public establishments, who are charged with the payment of salaries of workers on secondment to other ministries and state establishments. 

It also concerns institutions that have to effect deductions and pay such to establishments like the National Social Insurance Fund, NSIF.

The Director General of the Budget at the Ministry of Finance, Cyril Edou, represented the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze, at the presentation of the software. 

Edou said ANGIFODE will resolve major problems associated with the management of salaries and pensions for workers on secondment.

He highlighted the fact that many public and para public establishments; and even ministries from which civil servants are sent on secondment to other establishments, do not respect the rule of paying  salaries, allowances and other benefits.

Most of the staff on secondment, he said, always face problems having their pay at the end of the month. Edou said the situation is worst when staff on secondment prepare for retirement.

The consequences, he said, is on both the worker and the image of the public service.

Family photo of MINFI & officials of external services after unveiling of software

The Director General of the Budget cited specifically the default in paying pension deductions to the NSIF, as one of the issues that cause untold suffering to retirees.

Edou went on to reveal that not less than 40 public and para public establishments fall in this category of defaulters with establishments like CAMTEL owing sums amounting to 5.5 billion FCFA.

He lambasted Directors and other heads of departments for exhibiting reluctance in joining the government´s bandwagon of continuous modernization of the public services delivery.

Edou expressed dismay that the default by these critical collaborators has led to the accumulation of public debts now embarrassing the state.

He said annually, NSIF receives only two billion FCFA as contribution for salaries and retirement benefits for staff on secondment. He lamented that the government spends an extra 70 billion annually to complete the required resources.

He further disclosed that Cameroonians who go on retirement are now living much longer than in the past. This, he said, is because the situation of handling their benefits  has improved.

Edou, therefore, encouraged all stakeholders to embrace ANGIFODE, assuring that if the system is adopted on a widescale, it would help reduce accumulation of government´s social debts.

Even more, he urged them to brainstorm and come up with a mechanism that would see how the gap between what workers contribute towards sustaining the national pension scheme and what contributors actually earn after retirement can be bridged.