{"id":78,"date":"2026-06-18T07:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2026-06-22T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:12:36","slug":"president-kiir-commends-ongoing-biometric-and-headcount-for-civil-servants-to-stem-out-ghost-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"President Kiir Commends Ongoing Biometric and Headcount for Civil Servants to Stem Out Ghost Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a6bdd97e-e1f0-457b-8757-603c07761bf6.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a6bdd97e-e1f0-457b-8757-603c07761bf6.webp 1280w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a6bdd97e-e1f0-457b-8757-603c07761bf6-300x169.webp 300w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a6bdd97e-e1f0-457b-8757-603c07761bf6-1024x576.webp 1024w, http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a6bdd97e-e1f0-457b-8757-603c07761bf6-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">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 class=\"p2\">This came&nbsp; through a detailed report from Minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, who said the initiative is aimed at<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">ensuring that public servants are registered<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>and counted so as to remove duplication in all departments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">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","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":96,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jubaglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}