How Gombe State Paid Out Nmillions To Non-Existent Workers

It has been revealed how Gombe State has been paying out millions of naira monthly as salary to non-existent workers totaling 431.

The shocking discovery has made the state government to place a suspension order on  ghost workers from the state government payroll system for the month of May 2021

A committee for the Integrated Payroll Payment Gateway and Human Resource Management Information System made this revelation while briefing journalists.

The revelation has stirred up a lot of developments in Gombe state with the Commissioner of Finance and Economic Development, Muhammad Gambo Magaji  saying that another 691 staff are billed for investigation due to insufficient attendance as indicated by the biometric data capture machine.

According to him, the 431 ghost staff are mostly from the health sector.

He said the State Government was able to make savings of N27, 114, 674 while for the 691 staff also from the health billed for investigation for insufficient attendance, the government was able to withhold the sum of N62, 888, 621.

He equally revealed that based on the earlier directive issued by the Gombe State government for workers on grade levels 1‐12 to work from home as part of measures against covid-19, a total of 244 staff with a total salary strength of Seven million, two hundred and forty-eight thousand twenty-seven naira were also captured by the biometric to indicate transparency and accountability.

According to the Finance Commissioner, 45 staff of Kwami LGA have been suspended from the payroll of the Local government, thereby saving a total of seven hundred and four thousand four hundred and eighty-eight naira (704, 488) in the process.

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He added that another four staff from the same local council have also been sanctioned for incomplete enrollment with a total salary strength of one hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred and seventy-two naira (N147, 272).