{"id":186012,"date":"2024-12-06T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ghost-worker-crackdown-saves-liberia-2-4m-csa-report\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T10:01:37","slug":"liberia-ghost-worker-crackdown-saves-liberia-2-4m-csa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ghost-worker-crackdown-saves-liberia-2-4m-csa-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ghost Worker Crackdown Saves Liberia $2.4m &#8211; CSA Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Monrovia \u2014 According to its recent report, the Civil Service Agency (CSA) has saved Liberia $2.4 million by removing more than 5,500 ghost workers from the government payroll, slashing the monthly wage bill from $23.5 million to $21.1 million in a sweeping crackdown on fraud and inefficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\">According to the report, the payroll cleanup has been pivotal in restoring transparency and accountability in government spending. &#8220;The reduction in the payroll budget is a direct consequence of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060161.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 According to its recent report, the Civil Service Agency (CSA) has saved Liberia $2.4 million by removing more than 5,500 ghost workers from the government payroll, slashing the monthly wage bill from $23.5 million to $21.1 million in a sweeping crackdown on fraud and inefficiency. According to the report, the payroll cleanup has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[46527,258,256,14409,16352,10363,4712,1107,257,5144,10641,254,8196],"class_list":["post-186012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-2-4m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crackdown","tag-csa","tag-ghost","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-report","tag-saves","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}