The Kaduna State government says it has identified over
13,000 suspected ghost workers in the state civil service. The Head of Service,
Mrs Alisabatu Dada-Onazi, disclosed this while briefing
journalists at the end
of the state executive council meeting.
Mrs Dada explained that the ghost workers were uncovered
after series of verification exercises were conducted to ascertain the actual
number of genuine civil servants on the Kaduna State government payroll saying
that the number of workers in the state civil service has been reduced from
over 88,000 to 75,726. She also expressed
her concern and apologized to all who suffered hardship while the verification
exercises lasted.
She also pointed out that the decision to embark on the
verification exercise was informed by the disturbing amount of money being paid
as workers’ salaries every month, whereby government spends all its allocation
from the federation account on overhead costs and vowed that all those involved
in the criminal act would be prosecuted accordingly.
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