The Kwara State Personnel Database Development Committee
said it has uncovered 8,863 suspected ghost personnel on the payroll of both
the state and local governments.
The alternate Chairman of the Committee, Alhaji Isiaka Gold
made this disclosure yesterday while submitting the committee’s report to
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed at the Government House, Ilorin.
He said the 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.
Gold said that, 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.
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