Employees of the Nampula City Council, whose contractual situation was irregular, had their activities and salaries suspended as of yesterday, May 1, as a way of correcting the illegalities that had been committed by the outgoing executive.

There are just over a thousand employees, whose names were put up in the town hall windows on Tuesday (April 30) and who had already been warned at a general workers' meeting led by the current president, Luís Giquira, last Friday.

A newspaper publication Wamphula FaxIn a similar piece of work to the life test, the report says that the irregularities detected include situations such as the lack of contracts or the existence of contracts that have expired or have not been approved by the Administrative Court, in violation of the requirements of the legislation governing the activities of state civil servants.

And because there was a crowd of employees consulting the lists in front of the Municipal Council building, the councillor responsible for Administration and Human Resources, Bernardo Francisco, called the press to clarify the situation, which he said was the result of the data update that took place two weeks ago.

Francisco says that, as had been reported, the city council had found an approximate number of 2,700 employees on the payroll and, not being comfortable, after updating it, found that it had 2,225.

"Of these 2,225 employees, around 1,000 were in an irregular situation, i.e. their contracts had expired and others had not been approved by the Administrative Court, according to the list in the town hall's shop window, and most of these contracts were signed in 2015 and have never been updated," he explained.

The source says that the recommendations of the public inspectorates that passed through the municipality in previous years, to regularize the expired contracts that had not been approved by the Administrative Court, were ignored and that the council does not intend to go along with this type of illegality.

The councillor assured that the salaries for the months in which these employees worked for the municipality (January to April) will be paid in full within a maximum of 15 days, but reiterated that these were not dismissals, but rather a way of regularizing the illegalities.

A service order also published by the city council talks about the launch of a public competition for entry as a way of possibly regularizing those affected in accordance with the General Statute for State Employees, but does not give details of the act.