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Bauchi removes 1,115 ghost workers from payroll, saves N763.7m

Bauchi State Government has removed 1,115 fake employees from its payroll and saved N763.7m

The Deputy Governor of the state Senator Baba Tela stated this on Thursday in Bauchi when he submitted the report of the workers’ verification committee set up by Governor Bala Mohammed to find a lasting solution to challenges of salary payment in the state public service.

Tela, who chaired the committee, said the report indicated that the total number of personnel uploaded from the state and local government service is 80,236.

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The committee said it found 1,115 ghost workers, 5,429 illegal employees, and 1,712 illegal pensioners in the state.

He said Government warehouse 489,895,991.90 salary that could be paid to the cleared employees and pensioners of both state and local government. 

Baba Tela advised that a monitoring and evaluation committee be put in place to continuously assess the performance of the software and to take disciplinary action on all violators of the new salary reforms.

Receiving the report, Governor Bala Mohammed thanked the committee for a job well-done and pledged to use the saved funds to employ more state indigenes in to public service. 

He said government will continue to pay monthly salary as and when due, adding that the award of contracts will not affect salary payment in the state.

The governor said government will set up a committee that will implement the report to ensure the success of the exercise. 

Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress in Bauchi, Comrade Danjuma Saleh, pledged their support and loyalty to the government to implement the report.

He appealed to the governor to hasten the implementation of the report in order to address the lingering problem once and for all.

The committee was set up on 23rd March 2021 to address the problem of ghost workers in government payroll in the state and local government civil service.

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