Monrovia, Liberia – According to Josiah J. Joekai, the Director General of the Civil Service Agency (CSA), some heads of Government expenditure agencies or their Human Resources Directors have regularly visited banks to refuse payments of civil servant salaries on grounds that the civil servants have either been suspended or dismissed.
Director Joakai noted that only the CSA and the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning (MFDP) have the authority to stop, refuse, or block any pay of a civil official. “Let this also claim the attention of banks to which civil servants’ monthly salaries are deposited, that only the CSA and MFDP can and should sanction any action regarding civil servants’ salary payment.”
The CSA manager indicated that neither withholding nor blockage of wage responsibility were within the authority of the heads of Spending Entities or their Human Resources Directors at any moment.
He added the move is not supported by law nor customary practice given the far-reaching duties and obligations of the CSA as specified in the 2012 Standing Orders of the Civil Service, the 1973 Act creating the CSA, and the Revised Human Resource Policy Manual of 2014.
Reported by: Prince Saah
Contact: +231778239813
Email: saahprince119@gmail.com
