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Kogi Uncovers 9,000 Ghost Workers

After the just concluded staff screening exercise in Kogi state over 9, 000 workers were assumed ghost as they failed to appear for the exercise, Leadership reports.

The Chairman of the screening committee Mr Henry Agbaje who disclosed this during a critical stakeholders meeting in Government House, Lokoja yesterday, said apart from pensioners, a total of 9,720 persons across the state did not show up for the screening exercise.

According to him , the figure reduced the workforce even before the screening .

He pointed out that in the course of discharging their assignment over 81,000 staff and pensioners in both state and Local Government Area were screened as a result of government’s determination to clean up the system and avail its self with the actual number of staff in its payroll.

Agbaje hinted that a total of 25,208 forms were issued across the 21 LGAs of the state , noting that 22,272 presented themselves for the screening while 2,936 assumed workers failed to appear, saying that “they were considered as immediate ghost workers in the state.

He also disclosed that the primary school teachers issued the screening forms were 25,662 but 22,608 submitted themselves for the exercise, concluding that the 3,054 teachers who did not show up are ghost workers.

The Chairman of the committee lamented that some workers had issues ranging from forged certificates, lack of Bank Verification Number (BVN) , no statement of bank account while some worked in another state but got salaries either in the state or at the local government council of Kogi state.

The Auditor General in charge of Local Government Alhaji Ahmed Ododo while presenting an interim findings of the back up committee saddled with the responsibility of check mating the activities of the screening committee revealed that over 40 untreated forms was included in the screened list.

He noted that some anomalies discovered in the activities of the screening committee clearly show that there are elements who stood firm to sabotage the effort of the government.

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