By: Washington Tumay Watson –onewash9 (@gmail.com
The Liberian Government is said to be doing everything possible to eradicate ghost names from its payroll.
One of those government entities that is in the full move, is the General Auditing Commission which has disclosed that it will shortly conduct a ten-day headcount audit of all civil servants across the country .
Speaking Thursday on the State Radio in Paynesville the Auditor General of Liberia, Garswa Jackson said in 2018, the national wage bill team was assembled that included the Civil Servants Agency and the Ministry of Finance Development Planning.
According to him, the team was put together to review the Civil Servants payroll, stressing that there were number of compositions that were attached to the wage bill team.
He said there were lots of wage bill data based at various Ministries and Agencies that the team needed to join together; compact all of the wage bills into a single data based for Civil Servants.
Mr. Jackson further said as the government entity responsible to audit, the GAC had to verify the payroll date before it can be migrated into the system.
He said the GAC is charged with the constitutional responsibility to audit all public fund of Liberia.
Jackson said GAC was engaged to standardize the system.
He told the media that the task in the payroll verification is challenging, emphasizing that other integrity institutions have their part to perform that included the Internal Audit Agency among others.
The GAC boss further said the Commission has put into place an audit system to conduct the head count audit.
He disclosed that the GAC is using ICT Technology specified that a person who will be audited by head count, he or she photo will be verified by those other data based from the National Identification Card Registry data and that of the National Social Security and Welfare Cooperation data.
He said all of those data from a person will correspond with his or her payroll data.
According to him, as the auditors are conducting the head counts audit on the field verifying the civil servants of the government at the back, the reconciliation will already be done .
Jackson urged all Civil Servants to take the head count audit very serious.
He further disclosed that the team will utilize all of the identification cards that include the Passport, voter registration among others.
Mr. Jackson said the verification process will commence April 4.
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