Cameroon has been able to achieve savings of more than 40 billion FCFA per year since 2018. This, thanks to the cleaning up of the state payroll and pensions file, based on many initiatives including the payroll.
The most recent result of the process of cleaning up the state file is “the abolition of the technical premium paid twice to certain health workers. An irregularity which led to unduly paying this bonus of 2400 FCFA for 18 years to 4490 public health officials. The related financial impact is of the order of approximately 2.5 billion FCFA “
In a note published on July 31, 2020, by the Ministry of Finance, it stated that “the Interministerial Sanitation Committee sits monthly. Beyond the cases of fraud and various irregularities that it is called upon to track down, this committee also strives to maintain a reasonable level, the monthly ceiling of the state wage bill “.
“It is also thanks to this note intended for the media that we recall that the physical counting of State personnel (COPPE), the first in a series of operations, made it possible in its first phase to achieve budgetary savings of over 35 billion FCFA per year. The purpose of this operation, launched in April 2018, was to eliminate from the file of public officials, those who do not have the right to be there when the payroll was 945 billion FCFA per year ”, specifies our colleague.
According to data recently released by the General Directorate of the Treasury, individualized transfers of salaries continue through the application called SYSTAC (system of remote compensation in Central Africa).
The first assessment of this operation, launched at the end of August 2019, revealed that: “of the 412,401 personnel registered in the State payroll, only 410,625 had come into possession of their salaries or pensions at the end of the month implementation of this operation. There were then 239 cases of non-compliant transfers, 1524 rejections leading to returns of funds to the Treasury. Among these rejections, there are 1000 cases of deceased and 50 cases that have been the subject of complaints and regularization. The economy here was over 200 million FCFA per month or 2 billion over the year “, we can read.
The consolidation process in relation to the dematerialization of cash vouchers has not yet made public any results. But, “according to indiscretions, data is being consolidated before publication.”
