Spokesperson in the Department of Human Resource Management and Development (DHRMD) Kennie Mtonga confirmed that some civil servants have not received salaries for December, January and February after being removed from the payroll.

Mtonga, however, insisted that these civil servants are those whose IDs are yet to be submitted to the department.

According to Mphonda, no one whose ID number is with DHRMD has gone unpaid since the process of reinstating government workers to the payroll is done immediately.

“We had requested all civil servants to bring to DHRMD their national ID numbers through their Ministries, departments of agencies. All those who complied or who are complying are being reinstated on payroll,” he said.

Last year, about 8,000 civil servants were removed from the payroll for not complying with the requirement to submit their national identity cards.

The government said the move was aimed at flushing out ghost workers from the system.