CSA Recommends Dismissal Of Several Employees From Three Entities

By Decontee M. Wesseh

MONROVIA, June 18 (LINA) – The Civil Service Agency of Liberia (CSA) has recommended immediate dismissal, suspension and warning actions against several employees from the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Liberia Institute for Public Administration and the National Center for Coordination and Response Mechanism.

According to the Director General of the Civil Service Agency (CSA) Josiah F. Joekai, the CSA has finalized the analysis of the named spending entities attendance records from January to March 2024, which showed that those employees are in direct violation of Section 4: 3, 4 and 16 of the Revised Civil Service standing orders of 2012.

Speaking Tuesday at the Ministry of Information press conference, the CSA boss explained that the standing order states that “unauthorized absence from work for a period of 14 consecutive days may be considered by an agency head as resignation.”

However, the statistics showed that 40 employees have been dismissed, 81 suspended, and 10 were warned from the Ministry of Mines and Energy due to absence from work for more than 20 days monthly.

Additionally, 28 employees of the Liberia Institute for Public Administration have been dismissed, 30 suspended while three have been warned for direct violation of Section 4: 3, 4 and 16 of the Revised Civil Service standing orders of 2012, while 12 employees from the National Center for Coordination and Response Mechanism were dismissed.

However, the CSA has recommended that the Ministry of justice launch a full-scale investigation into the matter, where all the Human Resource Directors as well as financial comptrollers at the three government spending entities will be probed.

He attributed his recommendation to the fact that findings from the CSA ongoing Physical Verification and headcount shows that the Directors and Comptrollers of the three spending entities illegally processed the salaries of the concerned employees who did not work for over 20 to 61 days from January to March 2024, but illegitimately received total salary payments for the three months in question.

 “For these grave financial resource leakages, CSA has requested the Ministry of Justice to fully investigate the Human Resource Directors and Financial Comptrollers of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Liberia Institute of Public Administration and the National Center for Coordination Response Mechanism,” the CSA Director General noted.

Joekai then applauded the Government of Liberia for their full support to the critical national initiative of sanitizing the national payroll.