By: Lamin B. Darboe
Communication Officer, MoPS
The Minister of Public Service (MoPS) has strongly urged civil servants and pensioners to present their mandatory documents to the verification team or risk salary stoppage.
Minister Baboucarr Bouy was speaking on Tuesday March 3, 2026 at his office shortly before the departure of the 18 verification teams to their various cluster stations.
MoPS’ verification teams are currently conducting the second phase of the civil service and pension verification exercise within Banjul, Kanifing Municipality (KM) and West Coast Region (WCR).
“We want to develop Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) to boost accountability, payroll integrity among others in civil service. We still have gaps and this exercise will help us fill those gaps,” Minister Bouy remarked.
He therefore explained that at the end of the verification exercise, any civil servant who failed to present his or her complete documents to the teams will face the risk of stopping his or her salary.
“All civil servants and pensioners must make themselves available to the verification team members with their proper documents like Warrant Card, valid National Identification Card or ID print out, Passport, Driver’s license and voter’s cards,” Minister Bouy noted.
According to him, the outcome of the whole verification exercise will help his ministry update the payroll system for the entire civil servants. He says they want to get complete human resources data base that will contain updated accurate information on each civil servant.
Senior Management Team of the Ministry of Public Service (MoPS), verification supervisors and data collectors both witnessed the departure of the verification team members.
It could be recalled that two weeks ago, similar exercise was conducted in four regions of the country namely: North Bank Region, Lower River Region, Central River Region and Upper River Region.
