{"id":33023,"date":"2026-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=33023"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T00:00:00","slug":"president-kiir-commends-ongoing-biometric-and-headcount-for-civil-servants-to-stem-out-ghost-names-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=33023","title":{"rendered":"President Kiir Commends Ongoing Biometric and Headcount for Civil Servants to Stem Out Ghost Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/op.gov.ss\/storage\/news\/c1dedc85-c7a6-4082-93ca-b2cdb4a3c6db.webp\" alt=\"President Kiir Commends Ongoing Biometric and Headcount for Civil Servants to Stem Out Ghost Names\" \/><\/p>\n<p>JUBA, APRIL 16, 2026&nbsp; &mdash; His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit has commended the ongoing Biometric and Headcount carried out by the Ministry of Public Service and Human Resources Development, saying this would help eliminate ghost names in public service.<\/p>\n<p>This came&nbsp; through a detailed report from Minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, who said the initiative is aimed at<\/p>\n<p><span>ensuring that public servants are registered<span>&nbsp; <\/span>and counted so as to remove duplication in all departments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hon. Ezekiel Lol said the meeting also touched on addressibg the settlement of pension payments, political and security issues, with the President expressing his commitment to peace, ahead of the country&#8217;s general elections in December this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Office of the President, Republic of South Sudan (op.gov.ss)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA, APRIL 16, 2026&nbsp; &mdash; His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit has commended the ongoing Biometric and Headcount carried out by the Ministry of Public Service and Human Resources Development,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-of-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}