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The Permanent Secretary said Abim had no ghost teachers because the district had no community or private schools.
Public Service Permanent Secretary Jimmy Rwamafa and his team sat through a three-hour interview before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into mismanagement of the Universal Primary and Secondary Education programme over creation and maintenance of ghosts on the payroll.
The commission, chaired by High Court Justice Ezekiel Muhanguzi was riled after it discovered 20 suspected ghost head teachers in Abim yet the district had only 34 schools. “Mismanagement of the payroll is one of those key facts that have led to wastage of resources, an example is in Abim district. So which schools do these excess 20 head teachers lead? Keeping absconders and the dead on the payroll has also wasted funds,” Justice Muhanguzi said.
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