No fewer than Twelve thousand, nine hundred and fifteen ghost workers have been discovered in the payroll of the 23 local government areas of Sokoto State.
This was disclosed by the State’s commissioner of for local Government and Community Development, Alhaji Mannir Dan-Iya on Thursday.
He said: “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 319m from the exercise, hence, it was a huge success”.
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.
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