The Gombe state government has uncovered 431 ghost workers within its workforce. The Committee for the Integrated Payroll Payent Gateway and Human Resource Management
Information System (IPPGHMIS) said the ghost workers were suspended from the state's payroll system for the month of May.Commissioner
of Finance and Economic Development, Muhammad Magaji also disclosed that
another 691 staff are billed for investigation due to insufficient attendance
as indicated by the biometric data capture machine.
Magaji said
the state saved N27 million from suspension of the ghost staff, mostly from the
health sector. He also said the state government withheld about N62 million
from the 691 staff from the health sector and are billed for investigation for
insufficient attendance.
In local
government areas, the commissioner said 45 staff of Kwami local government have
been suspended from the payroll of the council, thereby saving a total of
N700,000.
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