State poised to monitor pension of civil servants on retirement

On retirement, the employee ceases to be paid by the public service; however, they will continue to benefit from the rights to pension, especially as they pay quarterly to the public Treasury 10% of his salary, attached to the 12% paid by the employer, as prescribed by the law on the organisation of the civil pension plan.

But in practice, the text is not respected and once retired; officials no longer follow their records at the public service, obsessed by their new income. At the time of retirement, the lack of follow-up is a real headache for officials responsible for managing the pension rights.

It is in order to increase the performance of these agents and ensure the development of methods of collection and recoveries of contributions of retired officials that the Ministry of finance, (Minfi), organized a capacity-building seminar on 20 August in Yaoundé.

By opening the work on behalf of the Minister of finance, Félix Antoine Samba, Director general for Budget recalled that the seminar falls in line with the policy of good governance in the public and para-public sector advocated by the Government.

He expressed the wish to see restored ethical rules on pension rights of officials on retirement and consequently, the application of the rules for the benefit of all parties.

The participants followed workshops on two sub-themes: "the official on retirement and the constitution of pension rights" and "Procedures for monitoring and control of the transfer of rights of to pensions of officials on retirement", before returning to the heart of the matter through a workshop. The seminar involved agents of the Eastern, southern and central regions who came close to a long series of training.