Zimbabwe Government Dumps 10,000 Ghost Workers
December 21, 2020
VOA
FILE - A man counts Zimbabwean dollar notes and coins and U.S. dollar notes on the streets of Harare, June 25, 2019.
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MARYLAND
The Zimbabwean government has allegedly eliminated about 10,000 ghost workers following a biometric registration process conducted in conjunction with the World Bank.
According to the state-controlled Herald newspaper, the ghost workers have been struck off the payroll. The Public Service Commission’s human capital development manager, Moses Mhike, is quoted as saying they worked with some government agencies in tracing non-existent workers.
He told the newspaper that “we conducted a biometric exercise to get the data of all civil servants and comparing with the Registrar’s office. We realized that about 10,000 were not biometric compliant and traced them at each and every work station.”