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From PETER OKORE, Umuahia
Mid-way into the on- going verification exercise, embarked upon by Abia State government, a total of 2,300 ghost workers have been discovered and the sum of over N200 million saved from the monthly wage bill of civil servants and other public workers in the state.
According to the State Accountant General, Deaconess Njum Onyemenam, the huge savings was made using, what she called, ” a unified payment system”.
A release from the chief press secretary to the governor, Mr Kazie Uko explained that the Accountant general, Mrs. Onyemenam, who dropped this hint, today, Monday, after a meeting with the state Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, the verification exercise was still ongoing and that government hopes to make more savings.
Her words: “So far, we have been able to save N220 million from the ongoing verification of workers in the state, local governments and pensioners.
“Not less than 2,300 ghost names have been weeded out of the payrolls, using the unified payment system and we hope to still identify more as we continue with the exercise,” the Accountant General said.
She confirmed that following Governor Otti’s directive, government had last week paid the arrears of April salaries, left behind by the immediate past administration and also June pensions to retirees.
Also, local government staff, who had been skipped when the June 2023 salaries were paid, due to their failure to submit their verified payment schedule, will receive their salaries this week, Onyemenam said.
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