The biometric enrollment operation for civil servants in Congo-Brazzaville enters its second week on Monday, December 18, which is to run until February 20, 2023. Intended to control the number and payroll of civil servants, it also concerns teachers. temporary and community workers who have been waiting for their integration into the public service for many years. Report in a center in Brazzaville.
With our correspondent in Brazzaville, Loicia Martial
Patricia Ntoula, 45, leaves the headquarters of the National Institute for Educational Research and Action (Inrap) in Brazzaville, an enrollment center. Visibly tired and annoyed, she holds in one hand the documents she has just presented to the recording team. Since 2003, she has been teaching as a temporary teacher in kindergarten:
” We are part-timers, but we work like full-timers. We want to be included, May 2023 be the year of grace. (enlistment) what I just did is for the last time. I will never do it again “, she says.
Professor of philosophy at Kintélé high school, near Brazzaville, Ferrol Mambéké is in the same situation: “ We came to teaching very young. But, here we are today aging and the social situation has remained the same. So no progress. It’s the status quo “, he complains.
A civil servant since 2011, Jules Samba welcomes the enlistment which, for the time being, only concerns the city of Brazzaville: It is the government that decides to enlist us in order to control its workforce. This is a normal operation for us “, he justifies
The operation is supported by the World Bank. The last one, organized in 2016, had made it possible to count a workforce of more than 64,000 civil servants.
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