No fewer than 12,915 `ghost workers,’ have been lumped into the payroll of the 23 local government areas of Sokoto State.
This discovery was on Thursday disclosed by Alhaji Mannir Dan-Iya, the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development at a media briefing in Sokoto.
” 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 319 million from the exercise, hence, it was a huge success,” he said.
He noted that as a result of this discovery the ministry is planning to conduct a verification exercise of senior staff, whose salaries are paid through their respective banks and also added that issues arising from the exercise, mostly associated with ” human errors” were being addressed in collaboration with stakeholders.