A simple solution to African officials delaying salary payments of public sector workers.
There are many stories of public sector workers in Africa experiencing severely delayed salary payments that can sometimes last many months. They wait for the governor or minister to disburse the funds, but receive either excuses or are ignored.
First, African Officials, this your rascality needs to stop or a ferocious reckoning will eventually come. People work honestly and diligently, and you do not pay them. Just do the right thing and pay them.
Second, what is a simple creative solution to this salary epidemic? For African nation-building, I propose the following:
A law needs to be passed that makes payment for certain public sector workers a first line item on the national and state budgets. Meaning the funds for salaries should not be at the discretion of the Minister or Governor, but should annually go to an irrevocable escrow account for salaries.
From there, a team of non-government custodians would disburse the salaries for workers at the appropriate intervals. Naturally with regular monitoring and audits. This way, salaries are prioritized and it is removed from the discretion of government officials to an independent escrow account funded as a first line item on the national and state budgets.
Simple solution.
~Dr. Ikenna A. Ezealah, Ph.D., MBA
Builder of the African Future
J.D. Candidate ‘25
Nation Upbuilding 