And to ensure those receiving public funds are legitimate, the government of Liberia through the Civil Service Agency (CSA) and the Liberia Macroeconomic Policy Analysis Center LIMPAC is beginning a national payroll cleaning exercise across all Ministries, Agencies, and Public Corporations. The process which commences with verifying the counties’ payroll of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was approved by the Cabinet and is expected to nip in the bud, the challenge of eradicating ghost workers on the government’s payroll. “Payroll verification is an exercise we just started which follows the harmonization exercise which intends to create equity in the system. “We just intentionally began an exercise, approved by the cabinet for us to undertake a national payroll cleaning. We want to make sure what the Ministry of Internal Affairs represents is the same as what the county has.

Source: Front Page Africa March 30, 2020 01:18 UTC