El- Rufai To Conduct Final Verification Exercise, As Kaduna State Workforce Now 75,726

Gov. El-Rufai

By Lola Seriki- Idahosa

Kaduna State Government has Discovers 13,336 Ghost Workers after the series of Verification Exercises embarked on to ascertain the numbers of civil servants on its payrolls, Kaduna State government has finally fished out 13,336 ghost workers .

 Briefing journalists after the 22nd State Executive Council Meeting, the Head of Servic , Mrs Alisabatu Dada- Onazi said," Ghost worker phenomenon is not a myth ,but a reality both in Kaduna State and Federal level ."

The Head of Service said that the state government will soon conduct the final verification exercise to enable” the affected ghost workers to write to the Governor to prove that they are bonafide staffs of the state and Unified Local Government Services”.

According to her, "the reason for the staff verification is to ascertain actual number of staff on payroll using May 2015 as baseline

The May, July, August and from October 2015 to date were inconclusive, 3,000 did not show up for july, August 2015 verification while over 5,000 had a number of problems ranging from multiple PSN, wrong PSN, overpayments and wrong account details”.

“Following the implementation of the reports of the special verification committee and MDAs verification exercises; the number was reduced from 16,465 to 13,336.

He however said that details of the names of the affected staffs and the requirement for the verification by the Governor will be communicated to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)