Thousands of ghost workers have been exposed in Bauchi state with
under-aged children also on the payroll.
A committee setup by Bauchi State Government to fish out ghost
workers said that it had discovered names of eight-year old children as
‘teachers’ on the payroll of the government.
Alhaji Abubakar Gabi, State Accountant-General and also a member
of the committee, made this known on Monday in Bauchi in an Interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
“We have discovered that names of children between eight and ten
years of age appeared as ‘teachers’ on the payroll of the state.
“We also discovered that some of the pensioners duplicated their
payment papers; had the same names, same BVN, same GSM numbers and same account
numbers but bearing different photographs attached.
“Again we discovered instances where deceased families who had
earlier submitted death certificates of their heads and were paid bulk pension
entitlements, fraudulently working their way back and are still collecting
pensions,” he added.
Gabi explained that 4,500 state civil servants out of the 33,000
inherited by the present administration in the state were ghost workers.
He further explained that 7,300 local government workers out of
the 27,000 handed over by the last administration were ghost workers.
The AG also explained that 7,300 teachers out of the 29, 000
teachers handed over by the last administration were also discovered to be
ghost teachers.
“We have so far discovered over 19,000 ghost workers while only
7,000 pensioners out of the alleged 14,000 pensioners have turned up for
screening,” he revealed.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the state government had
on March 9, 2016 declared that it had so far discovered 19,241 ghost workers
and saved N797.46 million from the on-going verification exercise.
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