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The Kano State government has disclosed that 240 of its employees are receiving double payments while 217 others are operating under the same Bank Verification Number (BVN).

Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Dr Sulaiman Wali Sani, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Civil Service Matters and Chairman of the State Coordinating Committee, said the discovery followed a biometric verification exercise and the work of two standing committees – one on state payroll and another on local government payroll.

Sani, who represented the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) at the briefing, said the revelations were part of ongoing efforts to sanitise the state’s civil service and fulfill Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s campaign promise of ensuring prompt and full payment of workers’ entitlements.

“Inherited shortcomings in the payroll system have continued to disturb the government. We discovered that 240 employees are drawing double salaries while 217 individuals are operating under the same BVN, suggesting possible cases of ghost workers or identity manipulation,” Sani said.

He added that a total of 1,335 workers had also failed to report for verification for over six months, raising further concerns about the authenticity of many names on the government’s payroll.

In his remarks, Alhaji Umar Idi, Chairman of the Local Government Standing Committee, revealed that a recent audit uncovered 247 questionable names on local government and primary healthcare payrolls, including retirees, deceased persons, and cases of unauthorised staff elongation.

“Out of these 247 workers, only eight appeared before the committee to confirm their employment status. The remaining 239 names have been flagged for deletion, saving the government a total of N27,824,395 monthly,” he explained.

Dr Sani emphasised that the government’s motive was not punitive but corrective, aiming to ensure that genuine workers and pensioners continue to receive their full salaries and entitlements without arbitrary deductions.

He added that with the payroll cleansing exercise, workers should expect even more transparent and efficient salary payments.

https://dailytrust.com/240-kano-workers-receiving-double-salary-217-sharing-same-bvn/

God. Corruption.

Chai! BVN, NIN or other biomodal capturing still failed to detect and nip this worrisome trend?

Well, this is Institutional corruption because the system is entrenched right from the FG to the LGA levels. There must be some conniving all the way.

The highest level of illegality is in Kano

Some are even sharing names and using their siblings certificates to work.

But this is a normal thing in the North.

This is how corruption starts.. the man behind this act will be appointed as the ant General of the federation and we will be having ghost workers in the Civil service while running short of staff.

Shame

From government to citizens, Nigerians are all corruption infested

The effrontery people have to commit such grave crime is mind boggling

Nigeria is really a cruise country.

Why is it that things that are really as simple as ABC in other countries are rock science in Nigeria?



This country is really tiresome.

Nigeria corruption never ends . 🤔,

That's where your hard-earned tax payer money is going

Shout out to Kano State and its people

Big Ups

When I say the north is created to bring us down they thought I was just capping. Now just imagine a country of only we the southerners. Not gain from them as a region and all these genocide and ghost workers are on the high.

Islie:


https://dailytrust.com/240-kano-workers-receiving-double-salary-217-sharing-same-bvn/

Free money

Kano state government so corrupt we all know it.... If Gandollar can hide money in his agbada why won't the indigens do more...

This is the same way they manipulate our elections

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CORRUPTION EVERYWHERE.!!

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Islie:


https://dailytrust.com/240-kano-workers-receiving-double-salary-217-sharing-same-bvn/

And what we here is :

"Jonathan and his wife ar corrupt"

"Buhari is a Tyrant"

"Tinubu is a corrupt drug dealing dictator"..

From the same people that are just about worse off

Only Obi can stop all these. He would line up the workers like students on assembly ground, personally count the money and be paying cash to every worker individually every month instead of transfer, so the issue of multiple pay wouldn’t arise. He is the solution to all our problems, just compare Anambra with Lagos to see this obvious truth. This Kano governor is incompetent, they should make Obi Kano governor

Civil servant almost as bad as the politicians

Hisbah State, see how dem corrupt, sadducees and Pharisees

PDPdestroyer:
Only Obi can stop all these. He would personally count the money and be paying cash to every worker individually instead of transfer, so the issue of multiple pay wouldn’t arise. He is the solution to all our problems, just compare Anambra with Lagos to see this obvious truth. This Kano governor is incompetent

Obi of Obi onisha or which Obi u de talk about? I wish help is coming soon 🔜 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😢😢😢 I no trust anyone right now including you

This is Nigeria

Fantastically corrupt for a reason 😎

PDPdestroyer:
Only Obi can stop all these. He would personally count the money and be paying cash to every worker individually every month instead of transfer, so the issue of multiple pay wouldn’t arise. He is the solution to all our problems, just compare Anambra with Lagos to see this obvious truth. This Kano governor is incompetent

Yeah right says a shallow minded person... We saw how he managed his own campaign funds and how party agents stipend were embezzled so much so that there were no party agents at the polling units to sign results and we also saw how Abure stole money, that woman in hijab stole money and we how his aide while he was governor was caught at the airport trying to smuggle millions of dollar out of the country on behalf of Peter Obi. But as I said earlier you guys are shallow minded and kids who are really daft and naive. Yeah right only Peter Obi can have such ers just like him

The corruption in the North is suffocating. Ghost workers, double payments, and fake names on the payroll are just the tip of the iceberg. It's like they're bleeding the system dry.

What's even more frustrating is that those who benefit from these corrupt practices get to reap the rewards of government programs while hardworking citizens are left struggling.

When will we hold our leaders able and demand real change?

Dejist007:
When I say the north is created to bring us down they thought I was just capping. Now just imagine a country of only we the southerners. Not gain from them as a region and all these genocide and ghost workers are on the high.

Calm down.Its happens everywhere.Nobody is a saint.The difference is just that one is worse than the other.

Gandollar led them to the path

Connection is all that matters