Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammed

A total of 596 dead civil servants and pensioners have been uncovered on the payroll of the Bauchi State Government

This was disclosed to reporters by the Chairman of the Bauchi State Authentication Exercise Committee, Mr Adamu Gumba, on Monday in Bauchi.

The Bauchi Bank Verification Committee was set up by Governor Bala Mohammed to fish out ghost workers on the state’s payroll.  Adamu said :

“Out of the 30,226 people that we screened, 24,736 have been cleared for payment. We discovered that 596 dead people were on the payroll. For those who did not show up, maybe they will have another chance to be verified by the implementation committee to be set up. I think they are suspects and everything must be done to identify them.

“If the entire 130,000 workers in the state and local governments, including pensioners, are verified, more ghost workers will be discovered because logically, if we could uncover ghost workers from the 30,226 people, how much more will be discovered if the entire number were verified.”

He further assured that all those verified and cleared by the committee but have yet to receive their three months salaries and allowances will now be paid without any further delay.

The Bauchi State Government inaugurated the committee to authenticate over 30,000 workers and pensioners after it found out that most of them were without the Bank Verification Number.