Benue govt uncovers 2,500 ghost workers

The Benue State government has uncovered no fewer than 2,500 ghost workers from the payroll of Local Government staff members in the state.

The state governor, Rev Fr Hyacinth Alia, revealed this in a press statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Kula Tersoo, on Thursday.

Alia gave reason for the delay in payment of salaries of teachers, as well as the local government staff’s, saying there was a need to sanitize and clean all the manipulations created by the past administration.

He said: “The governor says the decision for the delay in the payment of salaries of the above-mentioned workers was taken after the government discovered mindless padding of the wage bill and other fraudulent manipulations on their payroll.

“He says the decision became necessary after the discovery, to enable the government sanitize and cleanse the payroll; to ascertain the actual wage bill of the state, and to know the genuine workers that are worth their wages.

He reveals that the first phase of an extensive staff verification and payroll audit for all teachers and local government staff has just been concluded, and it has already uncovered over 2500 ghost workers that have already been removed from the payroll.

“He identifies ghost workers, ghost schools, double dipping, unlawful employment, salary padding, payment to dead or retired individuals, unlawful replacement, and inflation of the wage bill, as some of the payroll infractions discovered from the audit.

“He assures that workers who were successfully screened will receive their salaries before the end of this week, noting that government is not only fishing out ghosts workers and removing the padding associated with payroll fraud but also putting in measures to ensure the systems are protected going forward,” Hyacinth Alia said.

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