Some 8,863 ghost
workers are earning N437, 500, 513.56 every month in Kwara, says the state personnel
database development committee.
These workers were
captured in the payroll of both the state and local governments.
Alhaji Isiaka Gold, alternate chairman of the committee made this
disclosure Monday while submitting the committee’s report to
Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, the governor at the government house.
Gold said that 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.
His words: “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
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