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Burkina Faso suspends 1,488 salaries due to irregularities
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During a Council of Ministers meeting on April 24, 2026, Minister of Economy Aboubacar Nacanabo presented an oral report on the reconciliation of the payroll file with ministerial and institutional personnel registers. The reconciliation, based on the November 2025 payroll of 207,903 remunerated agents, identified three categories of situations. The first category included 34,901 agents in administrative registers but not on the payroll, potentially due to retirement, availability, secondment, or pending assignments. The second category comprised 193,423 agents found consistently in both databases. The third category identified 14,480 agents paid through the Integrated System for Administrative and Salary Management of State Personnel SIGASPE who did not appear in the transmitted registers. A detailed analysis of these 14,480 agents and the administrative status of the 193,423 agents revealed irregularities in the pay status of 1,488 agents. Consequently, 1,488 salaries were suspended due to reasons such as cessation of activity, death, retirement, abandonment of post, or non-compliant administrative situations. Additionally, 2,346 agents in internships were found to be unduly receiving field allowances instead of the prescribed on-call internship allowance. Financially, these measures are expected to generate substantial savings. The suspensions alone are estimated to save 2.43 billion CFA francs annually. Including the adjustment of unduly paid allowances to interns, the to
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