More than 6,000 ‘ghosts’ in civil service

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More than 6,000 ‘ghosts’ in civil service

PORT MORESBY: More than 6,000 “ghost names” of public servants nationwide have been identified by the Papua New Guinea Civil and Identity Registry, East New Britain National Identity Department (NID) mobile operations team leader William Kaluai says.

“The ghosts were found on our payroll system. This means, an officer’s name benefitted from two or three accounts,” he added.

The news break was reported by The National:

Over 6,000 ‘ghosts’ in civil service

June 6, 2022The NationalMain Stories

By MICHAEL PHILIP
MORE than 6,000 “ghost names” of public servants nationwide have been identified by the Papua New Guinea Civil and Identity Registry, East New Britain National Identity Department (NID) mobile operations team leader William Kaluai says.
“The ghosts were found on our payroll system. This means, an officer’s name benefitted from two or three accounts,” he said.
“They are playing with the process with some new technologies.
“There should be more than 6,000 ghosts as the identification process is still ongoing.
“We can only identify the individual if we get them all registered.”
Kaluai said the biggest challenge was misinformation by the public on social media that drew early negative conclusions on the NID registration.
“We have all sorts of conclusions going around and that prompted fear to people not to come and register,” he said.
On the registration of public servants in the province, Kaluai said the progress was very slow since 2018.
“It is not our part to convince them because it is a Government policy for all public servants to register,” he said.
“The Government is giving time for them to come and register.
“At all NID office nationwide, we prioritise public servants.”
Kaluai said tougher penalties would be meted out to public servants using ghost names.

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