Culled from Daily Update99
More than 4500 civil servants, including many secondary school teachers, have been dismissed from the public service.
After reporting the information to the Presidency of the Republic and receiving approval, Minister Joseph Le, in charge of the Public Service, signed the dismissal of these 4500 civil servants.
“The Minister of Civil Service and Administrative Reform informs public officials that the Secretary General of the Prime Minister’s Services has just signed a third series of decrees dismissing 232 civil servants. This brings to 4,556 the number of civil servants removed from the State Civil Service as part of the contentious phase of the Physical Count of State Personnel operation,” we can read in a note signed last Wednesday, March 5, 2025 by Joseph Le.
8,766 agents dismissed in 2024
It should be recalled that on October 23, 2024, the Head of State signed a circular giving clear instructions to the Minister of the Public Service, Joseph Le, and the Minister of Finance, Louis Paul Motaze. The objective: to finalize the contentious phase of the Physical Counting of State Personnel (COPPE) by proceeding with the “definitive removal from the state payroll of all public agents definitively recognized as absent.”
The figures are staggering: 8,766 public agents have been identified as being in an irregular situation. According to a conservative estimate of 100,000 FCFA per agent per month, the annual cost amounts to approximately 10 billion FCFA, and the total cost since 2018 exceeds 62 billion FCFA. The presidential measure targets several categories of agents: civil servants absent without justification, resigning agents, undeclared deaths, and recipients of unduly received salaries or pensions.
This decision is part of the continuation of COPPE, launched in 2018. This program aimed to identify and eliminate from the payroll all agents irregularly drawing from the state budget. After six years of investigations and census, the time has now come for definitive action.
