Ramathan Ggoobi, the Permanent Secretary/Secretary to the Treasury in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) has warned that any civil servant who will miss out on the ongoing verification and validation exercise will be removed from the government payroll in the next Financial Year.

Ggoobi said the ongoing exercise is for only public servants and is a compulsory non-negotiable activity.

The exercise is being carried out by the Office of the Auditor General where every civil servant will be given a number if verified as a bona fide public servant.

Addressing journalists shortly after being verified as a bona fide public servant today at the Ministry of Finance headquarters in Kampala, Ramathan Goobi the psst Ministry of Finance, planning and economic development noted that the exercise is intended to eliminate ghost employees, to know the exact number of government employees and how much each earns and why. 

Goobi emphasized that the exercise is also intended to find out the honesty of government accounting officers.

Meanwhile, the head count exercise for all public servants came up due to the letter from the Minister of Finance Matia Kasaija to Auditor General John Muwanga requesting him to carry out an outstanding and exclusive special audit about the issues of government payroll. He wanted to know the number of employees on the government payroll and their salaries.

The exercise in question started this month and here civil servants present all their documents showing when they started working for the government, qualifications, the size of the salary and where she/he receives it from, and many other requirements.

After the exercise, the Auditor General Mr Muwanga will issue a final verification report next month in June and it is from this report that the Ministry of Finance will use to determine how much money each government entity will receive to pay for salaries starting from the next Financial Year.