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PM orders tough measures against absentee state workers.

PM Dion Ngute during cabinet meeting

The Prime Minister, Head of Government, Chief Dr Joseph Dion Ngute, has ordered the stringent control of civil servants at their various work posts to end the rising trend of people abandoning their duty stations and earning salaries.

Dion Ngute gave the firm instruction during the cabinet meeting for the month of July. The meeting took place on Thursday July 25, at the conference hall of the Prime Minister’s Office.

During the meeting, the Prime Minister gave firm instructions to the Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reforms, Joseph Le and the Minister of Territorial Administration, Atanga Nji Paul, to address the situation.

Dion Ngute asked the public service boss to make public regulatory text in force relating to tackling irregular absences at work.

For Minister Atanga Nji, he was directed to instruct administrative authorities to establish a record of civil servants in their administrative unit and tract effective presence.

To note that during the meeting, Minister Joseph Le did a presentation on: "Obligation of the presence of State personnel at their workplaces; general framework and implications in the sense of the effectiveness of the public service throughout the national territory".

Atanga Nji, for his part, updated ministers on: "The role of administrative authorities in combating the phenomenon of irregular absence of state personnel and corrective proposals".

Minister Joseph Le, during the meeting, advocate meticulous control of personnel. He stated where necessary, defaulting civil servants would be summoned to appear before the Permanent Disciplinary Council of the Public Service.

MINAT boss, Paul Atanga Nji, reminded the cabinet members that provisions of Decree No. 2008/377 of November 12, 2008, fixing the assignment of heads of administrative units and established proper control mechanisms.

He said Governors, Senior Divisional Officers, SDOs and Divisional Officers, DOs, are invested with powers to coordinate and control public services in their various units of command.

The exception, the minister said, has to do with justice, defense and national security services.

By Dinayen Dorcas Kongla (Journalism student on internship)

This story was first published in The Guardian Post issue No:3183 of Monday July 29, 2024