THE Public Service Management Division (PSMD) has revealed that one of the civil servants whose accounts have been frozen was receiving 10 salaries a month amounting to K107,000.
PSMD Permanent Secretary Boniface Chimbwali said this when he met President Edgar Lungu at State House yesterday.
This is according to a report monitored on the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) main news.
Mr Chimbwali said to curb occurrences in which some civil servants connived with salary officers in order to receive more than one
salary, PSMD was making several changes to the Payroll Management and Establishment Control (PMEC).
“One person was getting 10 salaries amounting to K107,000 a month. That is criminal,” he said as he responded to the president who questioned him on the update of the frozen accounts.
President Lungu wanted to know when the cited cases would be reported to law enforcement agencies and if in some cases, the payroll agents were the ones that created the ‘ghost’ civil servants.
Mr Chimbwali said in certain instances, payroll officers connived with the civil servants to create multiple salary accounts for individual
civil servants.