{"id":24401,"date":"2021-04-21T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=24401"},"modified":"2021-04-21T22:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:21:51","slug":"bauchi-stops-salaries-of-715-suspected-ghost-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/21\/bauchi-stops-salaries-of-715-suspected-ghost-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bauchi stops salaries of 715 suspected ghost workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary to Bauchi State Government, Alhaji Mohammed Baba, says the government has temporarily stopped the salaries of 715 suspected ghost workers.<\/p>\n<p>Baba said this while addressing newsmen on the outcome of Wednesday\u2019s meeting of the State Executive Council at the Government House in Bauchi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have their lists and the reason for stopping every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/08\/salary-cut-nlc-suspends-planned-strike-in-kano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">salary<\/a> has been clearly provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the government wants to do is to ask the commissioners in charge of the different ministries as well as departments and agencies to make their own list and go back to those people, sit down and interview them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fine if it is something that can be sorted out but if it cannot, then, that automatically is the kind of thing we are saying about ghost workers in the system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dDefinitely, the government cannot continue to pay people that do not deserve to be paid,\u201d Baba said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the government discovered that the system used for salary payment in the state had been compromised.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the purpose of the briefing is to tell you the progress the government is making in addressing the salary challenges in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe intention of the committee set up about four weeks ago is to have a payroll, where the state is not shortchanged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we came, there has been the hue and cry that there are many ghost workers in the state payroll, the intention is to address that issue squarely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a collusion between the beneficiaries and staff members to the extent that the software we are using has been opened to a lot of manipulations, therefore, we cannot rely on it,\u201d Baba said.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Mr Abdulrasak Zaki, the Commissioner for Local Governments and Chieftaincy Affairs, said it was discovered that the names of a lot of retired local government personnel were still appearing on the payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Zaki described the development as \u201ctotally unacceptable\u201d, saying, \u201dwe are doing everything possible to see that we remove them out of the payroll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner for Justice, Yakubu Kirfi, said the identity of workers allegedly involved in salary fraud in the state would be revealed at the end of the ongoing police investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary to Bauchi State Government, Alhaji Mohammed Baba, says the government has temporarily stopped the salaries of 715 suspected ghost workers. 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