The Auditor General recommended the recovery of Shs53Bn from 10,192 ‘ghost workers’ who had been Gov’t payroll, but during the verification exercise in February 2023, these were found to have died, retired or absconded from duty.
The Office of the Auditor General undertook special audit of the salary payroll across government, where he validated all employees in 367 entities comprising of 162 MDAs, 179 Local Governments & 29 other Government organisations in February 2023.
This is contained in the Auditor Generals Report for the year 2022/23 that was presented to the Speaker of Parliament the Rt Hon Anita Among. The report was presented in the presence of the Leader of Opposition in Parliament, Clerk to Parliament among others.
