Kano
State Government has discovered 7,629 “ghost workers” on its payroll,
the state Head of Service, Alhaji Muhammad Awwal Naiya has announced.
Speaking at a press conference in his
office, yesterday, he said the “ghost workers” were discovered following
a Biometric Data Capture exercise which was conducted by a team of
consultants hired by the state government.
The HoS, who described the exercise as
on-going, said of 86,373 forms submitted to the consultants handling the
exercise, only 71,479 workers were captured while 7,629 purported to
be workers had so far not appeared to be captured.
He disclosed that the workers, who did
not show up for the exercise, despite being placed on several notices,
were presumed to be non-existing until a contrary evidence emerged,
adding that their names had, therefore been deleted from the state’s
payroll with effect from this month.
With the removal of a total of 7,629
names from the state’s payroll, Naiya said the state government would be
saving an estimated figure of N284 million on a monthly basis, adding
that the saved money will be reallocated to other needs of the
government.
Naiya also announced the discovery of 17
staff who were identified as collecting salaries from both the state
Hospital Management Board and the Primary HealthCare Management Board
respectively, resulting in an estimated monthly saving of N1,010,053.15.
He said the salaries of the affected
staff had been removed from the payroll, adding that they were
following due process to ensure that the staff returned the excess
payments that they had collected, after which they would be prosecuted.
He said that the state government was
committed to reinvigorate the State Public Service to bring it in tandem
with global best practices adding that the Data Capturing exercise
initiated was one of the efforts undertaken to realize this goal.
Credit: Sun
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