A set of orders has been issued by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Monday, March 11th,2024 directing for immediate stoppage in payment of salary to civil servants with fake certificates.
With this directive workers both in the national and county governments with fake documents will be affected too.
After the publishing of a report by the Public Service Commission (PSC) that had indicated a availability of hired unqualified individuals in the public sector having jobs using fake documents, EACC come in with tough order
Recently, a directive was released by the EACC which mandated all public institutions to verify the academic and professional certificates of public officers working within various positions.
In a circular, anti- corruption in stated that conducted investigations had shown that some public institutions have portrayed a tendance of allowing staff with active academic forgery cases to start processing for early retirement.
As aresult, the EACC Chief Executive Officer Twalib Mbarak after noting that several institutions go on have been doing the processing of pension benefits illegally without following clear law guidelines advised that all accounting/authorized officers should not process any benefits .
These benefits include pensions or unpaid allowances and accrued leave to individual workers that are found to have used fraudulent academic qualifications to gain employment in the public service.
Account to Mbarak , should there be any government organisations that discovers that one of their employees had fake certificates, they should move with speed to file a report immediately with the Ant-Corruption commission.
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission CEO Twalib Mbarak during editors guild luncheon ; Image/Courtesy
The directive from the commission on salary stoppage for civil servants come barely a month after warning that certain government institutions were protecting civil servants who have forged certificates.
After serious scrutiny that was done by the Public Service Commission (PSC), a report on Authentication of Academic and Professional Certificates has shown over 2,000 public servants had forged certificates.
According to PSC, the high level of forgeries had negatively impacted service delivery hence affecting the country’ education and economic development.
