Salary: Niger govt discovers N672m monthly payment to ghost workers
The State Chairman Salary Management Committee and Commissioner for Works and Infrastructural Development, Engr. Ibrahim Panti stated this in Minna while explaining the delay in the payment of salaries for the month of June.
The Management Committee chairman, however disclosed that during the screening exercise, 30% of each group of workers invited for the screening never turned up, noting that among those that came, some were caught with fake certificates. The commissioner explained that before the exercise, the committee was presented with a figure of 36, 000 as the total number of the states’ workforce, but during the screening it came down to 27,000 and later to 25,000.He said,” We later discovered different serial numbers with the same BVN, repeated names with different bank accounts and fictitious allowances and salaries.”
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