1,000 scrapped off payroll over IDs
Public servants in Rukungiri District check for their names on the notice board to find out whether they are on the payroll. PHOTO BY EDSON KINENE
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Verification. Officials say the affected either did not register for the IDs or had conflicting information on the biometric validation data.
RUKUNGIRI.
More than 1,000 civil servants in Rukungiri District, especially teachers, have been scrapped off the public servants’ payroll over failure to register for national Identity Cards and giving conflicting personal data.
The district principal personnel officer, Mr Dan Ndyamureeba, said the affected were those who missed out on the registration and those whose information on the IDs conflicts with Auditor General’s biometric validation data.
“If the information on the Identity Card is not the same as that in the Auditor General’s data, obviously you were scrapped off and you need to go for verification. If you missed the April 29 registration at Kololo [in Kampala] you were also scrapped of the payroll,” Mr Ndyamureeba said on Monday.
He blamed this on some people’s failure to take Identity Card registration serious.
“Some of the affected say they were asked for marriage certificates that had their husbands names that were also entered in the data and put on their identity cards which never was put on the Auditor General’s biometric validation data and also on the earlier payroll,” he said.
Ms Caroline Nagasha, one of the affected teachers, said her name was misspelt on the national Identity Card and she believes it is the source of her trouble.
“I don’t see my name anywhere on the list of those who are okay, when I tried to inquire, the personnel told me that I should not have taken my Identity Card. I told those people who were doing the exercise to rectify it, but I am now confused,” she said.
