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The Abia State Government says it discovered 2300 ghost workers in its payroll system and has saved over N220 million on monthly wage bills following ongoing verification of civil servants and other public workers in the state.

State ant General, Deaconess Njum Onyemenam made this in Umuahia, stating that the huge savings was made using a unified payment system.

Onyemenam, who spoke after a meeting with the state Governor, Dr. Alex Otti Monday, said that the verification exercise is still ongoing and that the state government had expressed its hopes to make more savings.

“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 ant General said.

She confirmed that following Governor Otti’s directive, last week that workers should be paid the arrears of April salaries left behind by the immediate past istration as well as June pensions to retirees.

The AG also disclosed that local government staff who had been skipped when the June 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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Have the perpetrators been arrested? Because the money dey inter human being and not ghost's .

Imagine and the investigation will stop at this without first out the masterminds

Find those behind this and prosecute them.... Those monies where being received by people with faces

The Abia state government have been paying two point four billion naira to ghost workers every year

Hard working governor

Continue with the good works that you're doing sir

Wow

Ghost workers, that's too bad

Politicians are the one killing this country. They deserve better part in hell fire

This is good news, I know some people will still lament.

No more business as usual

For people asking for the perpetrator...

Ghost workers salary are paid to without BVN ; Cooperative , Micro finance , and Cash

A Government Payroll system isn't centralized in State except Lagos and FG IPPS

What many states have is a list for each MDA, the workers nominal rolls and number

Commissioner of Finance goes to Abuja monthly for allocation paid into state

All IGR agency of the State have separate and remit whatever they like to state as IGR

State ant General helps them cover tracks

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Greed is ruining this country

Way to go Otti.

I know there are people that secured 'government jobs' for their family who are either dead or not even in the country.
They should also trace the destination s of those monies.

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THIS NEW ABIA GOVERNOR IS FIREEEE...!!!
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Right way to go



me for your website project

Ok

Kudos to you Mr Governor

way forward for a better Abia state for abians

It's in every state.

Abia State just discovered their own

Dr. Alex Otti and co... There is more to governance than seeking media validation on every small step taken!

Deliver tangible and people-oriented results on a massive scale, or get ready for an inglorious exit!

From Presidency to governors, all I keep hearing are steps and intentions... Abeg, shut the fvck up and work!!! Mtchewwww!!!

Na wah oo...this is very common in every government parastatals..
Ghost workers everywhere

Abia was ripped for like 24years
God please save Abia,we know you have started its salvation

I see more ghost workers being discovered, I see the government saving more money, I see Abia state becoming the china of Africa.

This I have seen.

Some people have been ghost workers in Abia State since 1999

kc80:


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Nice one

Good news.prosecute them immediately

Tinubu should just outsource Ex SW Governors to rule SE.

Fayose to Enugu, Ambode to Imo and dead Ajimobi to Anambra.

A dead SW Governor is better than all SE Governors since 1999 COMBINED.

Angelfrost:
Dr. Alex Otti and co... There is more to governance than seeking media validation on every small step taken!

One ghost worker has spoken

Good one

Meanwhile

Budweiser Surprised Davido with a big cake after his successful show in Toronto where he sold out a 16 thousand capacity stadium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBwLPYCYYrE

That's is their main occupation in SOUTH EAST, to manipulate, fraud the government




God mercy on this wicked people

Depriest2020:
Have the perpetrators been arrested? Because the money dey inter human being and not ghost's .

This is where governance falls flat, the inability to break the cycle by removing the tumor, so the cancer is most likely to remain. Law and Order is always behind the curve in Nigeria.

Get to the root of the matter, arrest even if it is just one person, slam a thirty year jail term for economic sabotage and watch how they will rat out the rest and the place will be sanitized by judicial precedence..... but no, they will not.