A staff verification exercise in Plateau State has traced 1,832 ghost
teachers to a single individual who is not even a teacher, while many more
beneficiaries of the syndrome abandoned their salaries in bank accounts, the
state governor has said.
Governor Simon Lalong also said a self-confessed
man who has lived in the United States of America (USA) for years but whose
identity was yet to be determined, admitted to him on phone that he had been
drawing salaries for himself and for many more ghosts to fund charity for
widows and orphans.
The governor spoke Saturday night at a media parley in Government House
in Jos to mark his one year in office, saying his administration inherited a
monthly wage bill of N1.7 billion, which had remained constant long after
records had shown that many workers had either retired or passed on, explaining
that thousands of ghost workers on the government payroll were responsible for
the development.
He said an interim report of the verification exercise had shown that one individual who was not even a teacher registered 1,832 ghost names, and opened bank accounts for them, through which teachers’ salaries were drawn on a monthly basis before the commencement of the implementation of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) exposed him.
He said an interim report of the verification exercise had shown that one individual who was not even a teacher registered 1,832 ghost names, and opened bank accounts for them, through which teachers’ salaries were drawn on a monthly basis before the commencement of the implementation of the Bank Verification Number (BVN) exposed him.
- Daily Trust
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