Morocco Faces Controversy Over 90,000 ’Ghost’ Civil Servants Still on Payroll

Despite the scale of the phenomenon in these administrations, the supervising minister does not want to take any action to see things clearly, deplores Assabah, specifying that "the number of ghost civil servants would be more than 90,000, including the dead and immigrants in Canada, Europe and the United States of America who still receive their salary." To put an end to this situation, "the ministry should set up a computer software to manage the 570,760 civil servants spread across several departments and ensure coordination between the ministries and local authorities, while applying the laws in force," proposes the daily.

"The public administrations and local authorities had clocking-in devices to control their staff, in addition to the inspection missions set up for this purpose," said the delegate minister in charge of the Digital Transition and Public Administration Reform in her written response to parliament following the statements of the president of the Rabat Council, Asmae Ghlalou, according to which "no less than 2,400 civil servants would be ghosts within her municipality."