FIVE thousand ghost workers have been discovered in the 20 local government areas of Bauchi State, even as the discovery saved the government a total of N11million which would have been paid as salary to the workers for May.

Disclosing this on Tuesday at a ministerial press briefing organised by the state Ministry of Information, the chairman, Bauchi State Local Government Service Commission, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa, stated that the ghost workers were discovered through a staff verification exercise carried out by the committees set up by the state government.

According to him, the N11million saved was too meagre, adding that more would be saved as soon as the four committees set up by the government for verification purpose concluded their work and turned in their reports.

Alhaji Musa stated that some local government staff were discovered to lack the required qualifications to work, adding that some had even reached retirement age but were still in service.

“The Bauchi State Local Government Service Commission last year established four committees for the verification of staff at the local government areas. The committees, which comprised 166 members toured the 20 local government areas of the state and discovered some ghost workers. They also discovered that some of the workers have reached retirement age and have bad records in the service. The reports given by the committees are being implemented upon so that due process will be followed and cases of litigation will be avoided,” Alhaji Musa stated.
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Every state in the North has more than 1 million Ghost Citizens, buhahahaha , Naija I hail oo

Hilarious

CHESSBOARD: Every state in the North has more than 1 million Ghost Citizens, buhahahaha , Naija I hail oo

ya all hail d originators of nija coruptn.una okare

this is very bad, naija 4 real

it is only in the land of Dirty Stinking Hausa/Fulani that Goats and Cows are counted as human being,

mai gaskiya: ya all hail d originators of nija coruptn.una okare

Hey buddy originator of Naija corruption is------ now fix the names, the 1st coup by Nzeogu was duo to Northern corruption tutored by the white.

The next State is Rivers or Cross River, So lets go, How many Ghost workers u have all got down there

Naija, a special Continent!! no be Country alone!

How about delta state?They are everywhere.Billions are stolen by the criminals every month,headed mostly by the state governors,paying ghost workers.

Even in presidency and senate,there are ghost workers.

Fraudulent Yorubas are the cause of this corruption that have ravaged this country, they taught Dirty Stinking Hausa/Fulani how to Steal. Ofe Oil people nay lie?

I think it is everywhere, they just discovered over seven thousand in niger state and i think they should do this nationwide. Is there no way they can get those behind this ghost workers stuff and punish them appropriately?. They can start by punishing the people who approved the employment of those workers into the local government for a start.

2 things:First,every administration is in d habit of discovering ghost workers,whc makes me to bliv dat its just a case of replacing one set of ghost workers wt anoda frm d new gvt in power.2nd, how can 5000 ghost workers lead to a savings of a mere N11m,meaning each ghost was paid an average of N2k,which is not possible.This further buttresses d first point I made:its d turn of d new power brokers to eat frm d ghost workers industry

so where is the 11million naira going to nw?

Wily+Wily:
Fraudulent Yorubas are the cause of this corruption that have ravaged this country, they taught Dirty Stinking Hausa/Fulani how to Steal. Ofe Oil people nay lie?

and it turned tribal again

aweaweawe: so where is the 11million naira going to nw?

It will be used to pay the allowances of members of the four committees set up to fish out ghost workers.

To fully apreciate this topic we need the followin answers

How come its always in a round figures. Thousands

How long have they being serving. 10yr maybe

11mill savings is for howlong since this is just 2.2k perperson

And. At 5000men wot percentage does this represents of the total work force of the state

Who is nomally blemed for this act. Maybe the devil as nomal

Who gets the glory. The new man in power maybe just to paint his predicesor black

I encorage all niaralanders to ask deep questions on issues and not be used as an audience for cheap poblicity

Wow I once heard we have nigerian association of ghost workers in dis our country..... In naija anytin is possible

They should start checking for their graves to recover salaries already paid to them

akpanbaba: They should start checking for their graves to recover salaries already paid to them

akpanbaba: They should start checking for their graves to recover salaries already paid to them

I feel u ma broda..... D earlier. D beta

Wily+Wily:
it is only in the land of Dirty Stinking Hausa/Fulani that Goats and Cows are counted as human being,

and half of those ghost workers were money worshiping nyamiris from evil forest and other cannibals from those parts.

LGAs are effectively non existent in Bauchi PDP government. No work is carried out anywhere the only money going to LGA from the state government is salaries and they go directly to staff bank accounts. The LGA chairmen (again PDP) figure that the only way they can get a share of the loot (all revenue and allocation to Bauchi) is to open ghost worker accounts. Nothing more nothing less. Please remember the extent PDP went to to preserve its misrule in Bauchi by forcefully returning the hated governor through violence and bloodshed.

Wily+Wily:
Fraudulent Yorubas are the cause of this corruption that have ravaged this country, they taught Dirty Stinking Hausa/Fulani how to Steal. Ofe Oil people nay lie?

re u ok? Pls, stop taking marijuana for lunch nd cocaine as brkfast...d result is ur post up here...

The issue of ghost workers is not a problem special to a particular section of the country but for Nigeria as whole. The issue of corruption is a Nigerian problem. May God see us through

hbabe:

It will be used to pay the allowances of members of the four committees set up to fish out ghost workers.