Official launching of the proceedings of the Joint Committee for the review of the results of the civil servants census
20 Mar, 2017
The Joint Committee for the review of the results of the civil servants census was set up in 2016 and became operational on March 20, 2017 in Brazzaville. The Committee is going to review the documents provided by civil servants in order to know for sure their real number, initially estimated at 87,000 people.
The committee was co-chaired by honourable Aime Ange Wilfrid Bininga, Minister of Civil service and State reform and his colleague honourable Calixte Nganongo, Minister of Finance, Budget and Public Portfolio. The Committee meeting enabled to review the results of the census which ended on January 6, 2017. For honourable Aime Ange Wilfrid Bininga, the main supervisor of the census, the results will be processed in accordance with the laws in force in Congo. " The review will enable us to reach the objectives assigned by the government. - mastering of the number of employees in the civil service and the pay roll" he said. Without going into details, some documents that the committee possesses already show some differences based on the laws in force. Things need to be got right", he said.
It is about the case of teachers who do no longer work for the Ministry of Education and keep being paid their benefits and salary incentives and that of officers put back to work by prefects, which is a violation of the law, and the case of fathers and mothers being paid family allowances for the same children.
As for the mastering of the number of civil servants at his stage, the Minister of Civil Service that the setting up of a computer platform, a process already underway, is coming to an end. " The software is almost ready. We will move on to a modern civil staff management as from April 2017", he mentioned.
As regard the mastering of the payroll, honourable Calixte Nganongo thought that it would be wise to compare the real number of civil servants and of the real pay roll, based on the records of the pay service. " We believe that the number of employees in the Congolese civil service is too high. Connecting the departments concerned will enable to compare their records with those of the Ministry of civil service so that we get good results from the job done" he concluded.
