Kogi State Government has disclosed that children of rich
individuals were among the 18,471 ghost workers a screening committee uncovered
on government payroll.Chairman of Staff Screening Review and Complaints Committee,
Mr. Yakubu Okala disclosed this during the presentation of the final report of
the review exercise at the Government House, Lokoja.
Okala said the monthly amount being lost to ghost
workers/unintended beneficiaries stood at over N2.6 billion.He noted that the review committee was able to confirm a
total of 45,128 as genuine workers and pensioners in the state.Okala said: “The payrolls were saturated with names of
pupils and students. This is a clear breach of the civil service rules.”
Other anomalies uncovered include abuse of study leaves,
incessant promotion of staff, names of dead pensioners on payroll, cases of
backdated employments, public servants with excellent results but couldn’t read
nor write, impersonation and multiple employments.Chief of Staff to the Governor, Edward Onoja, commended
members of the verification committee, saying their efforts will help
reposition the state civil service.Recall that Kogi State Auditor General, Alhaji Yusufu Okala,
had early in the year said that the state lost over N213bn to a category of
persons he called “GhostWorkers/Unintended Beneficiaries.”
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