Gov’t Orders Immediate Stoppage of Salary Payments to Select Civil Servants
Gov’t Orders Immediate Stoppage of Salary Payments to Select Civil Servants: The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Monday, March 11, ordered the immediate halt of salary payments, to several civil servants with fake papers.
EACC issued the order following the publishing of a report by the Public Service Commission (PSC) showing the proliferation of unqualified persons in the public sector securing jobs using fake documents.
In its latest directive, the EACC mandated all public institutions to verify the academic and professional certificates of public officers working within their ranks.
EACC in a circular remarked that investigations had shown that some public institutions were allowing staff with active academic forgery cases to resign or proceed on early retirement.
EACC CEO Twalib stated,”To this end, the Commission advises that all accounting/authorized officers should not process benefits including; pensions or unpaid allowances and accrued leave to persons found to have used fraudulent academic qualifications to gain employment in the public service,”
If government organisations discover that one of their employees had fake certificates, they were instructed to file a report immediately with the EACC
This comes weeks after warning that certain government institutions were protecting civil servants holding forged papers.
The anti-corruption body issued this warning after The Public Service Commission (PSC) Report on Authentication of Academic and Professional Certificates Revealed that there were over 2000 civil servants with fake papers.
PSC noted that the widespread forgeries had negatively impacted service delivery as well as the nation’s education and economic advancement.
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