Ghost Worker: 8 Years Old name Discover In Bauchi Payroll

    
A committee set up by the Bauchi State government to fish out ghost workers, has said it has discovered names of eight-year-old children as teachers on the payroll of the government.
State Accountant-General and also a member of the committee, Alhaji Abubakar Gabi, made this known on Monday in Bauchi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

“We have discovered that names of children between eight and ten years of age appeared as ‘teachers’ on the payroll of the state.

“We also discovered that some of the pensioners duplicated their payment papers; had same names, same BVN, same GSM numbers and same account numbers, but bearing different photographs.

“Again, we discovered instances where deceased families who had earlier submitted death certificates of their heads and were paid bulk pension entitlements, fraudulently working their way back and are still collecting pensions,” he added.

Gabi explained that 4,500 state civil servants out of the 33,000 inherited by the present administration in the state were ghost workers.
He further explained that 7,300 local government workers out of the 27,000 handed over by the last administration, were ghost workers.
Gabi also explained that 7,300 teachers out of the 29, 000 teachers handed over by the last administration were also discovered to be ghost teachers.