1,000 ghost workers exposed in Niger
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Over 1000 ghost workers have been exposed in Niger state following
the verification conducted by a committee set up by the Niger State
Government.
Some of the civil servants in the state were also discovered to be
collecting double salaries while further investigations showed whose
names appear in the payment vouchers but are not in the nominal roll of
the state government.
The Chairman of the Chairman of the Committee on Civil Servants
Salary Management and Verification, Engineer Ibrahim Mohammed Panti
divulged this to newsmen after the submission of the Committee’s report
to the state government.
According to him, a lot of discrepancies and malpractices have been
discovered in the payment of salaries while the committee is saving the
government more than N100 million with the recent findings.
“The discrepancies discovered in the course of the committee’s work
include duplication of Bank verification number (BVN), multiple bank
accounts number of some staff, duplication of civil servant control and
identification numbers as well as some staff names appearing in payment
vouchers but could not be found in the nominal roll with office of the
Head of Service.
“The state’s staff strength of over 27,000 people have so far been
reduced to about 26,000 while some few ghost workers have also been
discovered by the committee.”
Panti stated that only 42 out of the 95 Ministries, Departments and
Agencies submitted their staff list adding that the committee has
decided on the discipline to give to the MDAs as a consequence of their
refusal to submit their staff list.
“The committee will not pay October salary to any of the MDAs that refuse to submit theirs on or before 2nd October.”
He emphasized that the exercise was to close the leakages in salary
payment to civil servants and not to witch-hunt anyone, adding that
anyone who feels aggrieved or affected by the exercise negatively is
free to approach the committee.
The Committee Chairman further said that after the exercise is done,
the State Government might be in a position to implement the N30,000 new
minimum wage.
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