Govt Promises Delayed Salaries Ready By Monday
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| Malawi Govt Court of Arm |
Government
of Malawi has assured Civil Servants that have failed to receive their November
salaries to receive them by Monday next week.
The
assurance was made on Friday in a press statement that salaries were generally
processed on time and others started accessing their monthly pay by 27th
November, 2014, the official pay day.
However,
the statement noted that “there might be a slight delay in the payment of
salaries for some Civil Servants because of a technical problem with the
Government Payment System at the Malawi Switch Centre (MALSWITCH)” (system used
to transmit payment data from Government to Commercial Banks through Reserve
Bank of Malawi.)
Secretary to Treasury Ronald Mangani who signed the statement says due to the
technical problem at MALSWITCH which occurred on the eve of the 25th
November 2014, the Accountant General Department resorted to manually and
physically transferring salaries to commercial banks “This initiative was
necessary to minimise the delays that would have arisen.”
“The
Government sincerely regrets this sad occurrence” and assured the affected
Civil Servants that “every effort is being taken to ensure that they access
their November 2014 salaries, latest by 8th December 2014.”
The
statement further informs the general public that in an isolated instance, some
files from Ministry of Education, Science and Technology were duplicated whilst
manually amalgamating the salaries files. The statement says the issue has been
noted and corrective action taken to normalise the duplicates.
“Government
would like to re assure the general public and Civil Servants in particular,
that the Payment System has been rectified and is now undergoing validation
tests to ensure timely payment of future salaries.” Reads the statement
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