The Sokoto State Government said it had discovered no fewer than 12,915 ghost workers whose names were added to the payroll of the 23 local government areas of the state.
The state Commissioner for Local
Governments and Community Development, Alhaji Mannir Dan-Iya disclosed
this at a media briefing in Sokoto.
“The verification exercise has yielded a fruitful result, whereby about 12, 915 members of staff, comprising seat-at-home and ghost workers, were fished out of the local governments’ staff payrolls.
“The state government has also saved over N319m from the exercise; hence, it was a huge success,’’ Dan-Iya stated.
He further stated that the ministry was
planning to conduct a similar verification exercise of senior employees
whose salaries were paid by the ministry through their respective bank
accounts.
The commissioner also vowed that the
ministry and the local governments service commission were collaborating
to sanitise the payrolls of the local governments.
“Any official of the local governments
or the ministry found to be wanting in this direction would be duly
sanctioned. The ministry and the commission have beamed their
searchlights on the various departments of the 23 local governments as
well as the ministry, and anyone indicted would be sanctioned,” he
added.
The commissioner also said that issues
that arose from the exercise, mostly associated with ‘‘human error’,
were being addressed in collaboration with the stakeholders.
Dan-Iya further explained that the
ministry had successfully boosted the internally generated revenues of
the local governments by engaging consultants.
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