The Sokoto State Government said on Thursday that it had discovered
no fewer than 12,915 ‘ghost workers’ padded into the payrolls of the 23
local government areas of the state.
Alhaji Mannir Dan-Iya, the
Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development, disclosed
this at a media briefing in Sokoto.
“The ministry, through the
monitoring department and other stakeholders have concluded a local
government junior staff verification of about 58,143 workers, comprising
of scheduled and unscheduled staff.
“The verification exercise
yielded fruitful result, whereby about 12, 915 workers, comprising of
seat-at-home and ghost workers were fished out of the local governments’
staff payrolls.
“The state government also saved over N 319 million from the exercise, hence, it was a huge success,” he said.
Dan-Iya
said that the ministry is planning to conduct a similar verification
exercise of senior staff, whose salaries are paid through their
respective banks.
He also said that issues that arose from the
exercise, mostly associated with ” human errors” were being addressed in
collaboration with stakeholders.
Dan-Iya added that the ministry had boosted the internally generated revenues of the local governments by engaging consultants.
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