The communications unit in the Ministry of Home Affairs said in a statement yesterday that Msaki had been reportedly paying the ghost civilian staff members a total sum amounting to Sh305,820,000 since the start of the 2013/2014 financial year.
“According to police standing orders only police officers are entitled to food ration allowances,” said the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Major General Projest Rwegasira who initiated the suspension pending investigations.
In April, the government said it had saved about Sh16m that would have been otherwise paid to 8,000 ghost workers as salaries and allowances in the previous two months that marked the start of the ongoing crackdown on mysterious civil servants.
Angela Kairuki, the Minister of State in the President’s Office responsible for Good Governance and Public Service Management told the-then National Assembly in Dodoma that at least 1,614 ghost workers had been exposed within the central government and 6,622 others revealed from local government authorities.
“We are continuing with a survey to expose more ghost workers, and so far we are doing very well. No single stone will be left unturned in exposing them,” said Kairuki.
Earlier in the same month, President Magufuli had said more than 5,000 ghost workers had been detected countrywide including more than 4,000 from local government authorities and over 1,000 from the central government
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