The President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, today ordered the payment of salaries to members of the Defense and Security Forces (FDS), who have not yet received them, using the system prior to the Single Salary Table (TSU), immediately, starting next Monday.

"As long as the platform for processing special salaries has not yet been completed, the remaining members of the Defense and Security Forces should be paid using the previous process from Monday," Nyusi ordered, quoted by the Radio Mozambiqueon the sidelines of the swearing-in of Deputy Attorneys General.

The measure comes as part of the government's work to restore pay justice to state employees. In effect, the applicability of security salary payments to the TSU system will be reassessed.

"And in order for the process of correcting anomalies to be swifter and more harmonized, the Prime Minister will, as a matter of urgency, arrange a working meeting with those involved at central level, based on the assessment of the applicability of the platform developed for processing salaries for special area employees, i.e. those in the Defence and Security Forces," he said.

According to the head of state, the migration from one system to the other should not affect the payment of salaries on time. He promised to pay special attention to the officials responsible for processing salaries, starting with the permanent secretaries.

"They have to lose sleep when there are problems in their sectors. We have instructed all members of the government and their collaborators at all levels to make this issue of salary regularization a priority, sacrificing postponable programs because nothing should postpone what is sacred, the salary. No one can and should rest easy if they are not sure that their employee has been paid properly and on time. You have to bother the person who has to give you the solution," he stressed.

It will be recalled that recently, the Commander General of the Police of the Republic of Mozambique, Bernardino Rafael, said that his command was in talks with the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) to back away from the TSU system and return to paying FDS salaries under the old system.

At the time, Rafael suggested that the new system was not yet properly organized to meet the salary needs of the FDS.

Last week, the MEF called the press to inform them that, among other things, the salary problems in various sectors, particularly defense, stem from errors in the Excel databases provided to them.

In their defense, according to the MEF, some agents didn't receive their June and July salaries on time because of the mismatch between their Unique Tax Identification Number and Tax Identification Number. But also, according to the source, the salary shortfalls have to do with the lack of correspondence between the names and ranks of the FDS agents.