Over 1500 persons in the category of teachers from Ministry of Education schools and MOE teachers assigned in other schools clogged the General Auditing Commission (GAC) today for final verification exercise of the Ministry of Education payrolls by the GAC.

The exercise which is at the conclusive stage covers personnel, ranging from all principals, vice principal, registrars, teachers and non-teaching staff (Support Staff) of MOE teachers assigned at MOE schools and other schools.

GAC verification focuses on labor qualification audit aimed at establishing whether or not the teachers  are legitimate employees with  letters of employment, letters of assignment and letters of transfer. Their educational and professional credentials such as high school diplomas, WAEC certificates, college degrees, C-Certificates, B-Certificates, etc are also scrutinized by  GAC.

The teachers beginning today and Sunday are to complete special forms designed by the GAC that is now being used to enumerate all of Ministry of Education personnel for full regularization of the payroll.

The entire exercise is intended to fully regularize the payroll of the Ministry of Education, which is also a condition under HIPC.GAC carried out the first pilot exercise of Montserrado County, laying the foundation for the remaining 14 counties.

The Supervisor of the Audit, Mr. Abraham M. Attoh, expressed optimism that by that time GAC completes all of the counties, more money will be saved for the Liberian government from ghost names.”If we can capture 329 ghost names only in Montserrado County, there is high possibility of identifying more in the remote counties.”