The Sokoto State Government on Thursday announced the discovery of 12,915 ‘ghost workers,’ on the payrolls of the 23 local government areas of the state.

This was disclosed by Alhaji Mannir Dan-Iya, the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Development, at a media briefing in Sokoto.

”The ministry, through the monitoring department and other stakeholders have concluded a local government junior staff verification of about 58,143 workers, comprising of scheduled and unscheduled staff.

”The verification exercise yielded fruitful result, whereby about 12, 915 workers, comprising of seat-at-home and ghost workers were fished out of the local governments’ staff payrolls.

”The state government also saved over N 319 million from the exercise, hence, it was a huge success,” he said.

Dan-Iya said the ministry is planning to conduct a similar verification exercise of senior staff, whose salaries are paid through their respective banks.

He also said that issues that arose from the exercise, mostly associated with ” human errors” were being addressed in collaboration with stakeholders.

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