GHOST WORKERS INVADES KWARA CIVIL SERVICE
Kwara
State Personnel Database Development committee says it has uncovered a total of
8, 863 suspected ghost personnel on the payroll of both the state and local
governments.
The
alternate Chairman of the Committee, Alhaji Isiaka Gold, made this disclosure
on while submitting the Committee’s report to the State Governor, Alhaji
Abdulfatah Ahmed at the Government House, Ilorin.
He
said the 8, 863 personnel could not be verified in the just concluded staff
biometric verification exercise, noting that the development could potentially
save both the State and local governments N437, 500, 513.56 monthly.
Alhaji
Gold said that, as at the time of commencing the verification exercise, the
total number of staff on the payroll of both the State and local governments
was 81, 446, but only 72, 583 of the workers and pensioners scaled through the
verification process.
Giving
a further breakdown of the report, the alternate chairman revealed that of the
35, 656 workers on the State government payroll, only 31, 652 were cleared and
verified, leaving a total of 4,004 unverified personnel.
He
said out of the 45, 790 workers and pensioners on the payroll of the 16 LGs in
the State, only 40, 931 were verified, which leaves a total of 4, 859
unverified.
The
Committee recommended that the verification exercise should be continuous and
that the State government should implement a harmonized staff identification
system, certificate verification and clock-in system, which will be deployed by
the consultant at no cost to the government.
In
his response, Governor Ahmed endorsed all the findings of the committee and
also directed the State Ministry of Finance to adopt the Committee’s report to
prepare the payroll of both the local and state government workers henceforth.
The
governor, however, said that the ministry should warehouse the projected
savings until it is ascertained that all workers and pensioners are verified.
Governor
Ahmed thanked the consultant and members of the committee for the quality work
done and expressed confidence that with the submission of the report, there
will be an effective payroll administration at both the local and state levels. READ MORE
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