Bauchi Gov't Makes Shocking Discovery of Ghost Workers on Payroll...See the Unbelievable Number

The governor of Bauchi State, Mohammed Abubakar has made a shocking discovery of a staggering number of ghost workers in the state.

 

In a new report by the Bauchi State Government, about 6,065 ghost workers has been discovered by the government on its payroll. The shocking discovery was made following a compulsory workers’ verification exercise carried out by the state government since January this year.

 

Announcing the discovery, during an interactive session with members of the Correspondents’ Chapel, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bauchi State Council, at the Government House, Bauchi,  on Sunday, the state Governor, Mohammed Abubakar there were lapses in the last rounds of the exercise in the state that need not be repeated.

 

He said there were two set of errors in the last phase of the verification. The errors, he said, were human mistake which he apologised for, while he described the other as “deliberate sabotage.”

 

According to the governor, the state government was already using administrative rule to investigate workers involved in the sabotage, saying those found guilty would be dealt according to the law.

 

“During the exercise, we discovered 6,065 ghost workers on the payroll of the Bauchi State Government. This number could not be rated as small because even if you get 10 ghost workers, the exercise will be  worth it as they will be taking much money illegally.

“There were lapses during the exercise and they were continuous. Don’t forget; the forces that endangered this phenomenon of ghost workers are very strong forces. They have been entrenched over time and a lot of money is being siphoned out of the coffers of the government.

“Those forces will not fold their arms and allow us to put a stop to their activities; so they were fighting us all through. It is not as if it will happen today and stop tomorrow. They are creating all sorts of bottlenecks for the system and that is why I’m saying the verification is going to continue,” the governor said,

“For instance in education, we have asked every principal and headmaster to write a list of all his/her members of staff and sign under, knowing full well that he/she is going to be responsible for that list. So, we have a basis to continue with the exercise.

“So, verification is the policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria and it is also the policy of the Bauchi State Government, but I said we in Bauchi are going to do it differently,” he said.

 

He explained that the state government would not stop the payment of salaries during the verification of workers, stressing however that the exercise was not going to be a special occasion for anymore in which a committee would be set up to go round the MDAs.

 

“The verification is going to be routine; the heads of the MDAs will continue with the exercise as their responsibility,” he said.