The Auditor General, Mr John Muwanga has revealed that the country lost Shs53 billion in paying salaries to workers who are either non-existent, dead, retired, or absconded from duty.<\/p>\n
While handing over the Auditor General\u2019s report for the last financial year to the speaker of Parliament Anita Among, Muwanga, noted that in February, he carried out a special audit of the salary payroll and validation of government employees on 367 entities.<\/p>\n
The assistant auditor general, Mr Edward Akol says that a total of 358,753 who appeared for the validation exercise presented all the pre-requisite documents and were fully verified while 25,439 were partially verified.<\/p>\n
Akol says 7,744 individuals whose names were not on the base payroll appeared for the validation exercise, presented all pre-requisite documents, and were recommended to be included on the validated payroll.<\/p>\n
“The exercise revealed a total of 10,192 employees who were recommended for removal from the government payroll having been confirmed either dead, absconded, or retired by the time of validation,” Akol said.<\/p>\n
After receiving the report, Among promised to have the report scrutinized on time and has tasked the new Leader of Opposition Joel Senyonyi on the same.<\/p>\n
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