A verification exercise carried out by the
Borno state government has uncovered 10,000
ghost workers in the state civil service. This
was disclosed by the state governor, Kashim
Sheittima, during a state broadcast yesterday
August 31st.
According to him, the ghost workers made uo
the over 25,000 civil servants in the state's
service and were collecting salaries and
bonuses as eligible workers.
Shettima during the broadcast, said that the
committee verified only 19,763 workers out of
the 25,000 workers on the state payroll.
"You may recall that in December 2015, while
presenting the 2016 budget at the House of
Assembly, I promised to embark on staff
verification to determine the actual size of
the state civil service. We set up a high
powered committee chaired by the Secretary
to the State Government to carry out a
verification of the state civil service. To
finalise the exercise, a consultancy firm was
hired for biometric data capture of the
workers. As of today, 11, 397 workers have
been dully captured as being bonafide staff
of the state. About 7,392 workers have yet to
be captured, out of which 4,000 workers have
issues with their banks. There are also about
3,000 workers who failed to comply with the
guidelines on the filling the verification
forms” he said
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