₦airaland Forum

El-Rufai goes after ghost workers, begins biometric verification of civil servants

June 21, 2015Abdullahi Garba

The Kaduna State Government has announced the commencement of biometric verification of all civil servants in its employment from Wednesday.
A statement by Governor Nasir El-Rufai’s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity said the exercise is designed to provide the government an accurate and reliable record of its personnel numbers, and clean-up its payroll.
He said data collected from the exercise will enable the government determine if the billions of naira expended monthly on staff salary are being paid to identifiable and verifiable civil servants, and make savings from an updated personnel record.
“A circular signed by the Head of Service, Alisabatu Dada Onazi, said that the biometric registration exercise will be conducted simultaneously in the three zones, from locations in Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria.
“The circular also specified the order in which the personnel from each ministry are expected to appear for the exercise, and advised that civil servants must bring their letter of appointment, letter of last promotion and means of identification, which should be any of the following: national identity card, driver’s license, permanent voter’s card or international passport.
“The Head of Service directed that civil servants should physically appear before the verification team for screening and collection of their salary cheques for the month of June 2015,” the statement noted.
The Kaduna State Government last week signed a Memorandum of Understanding with United Bank for Africa and Zenith Bank to partner in updating the civil service payroll. The biometric verification exercise is scheduled to end on July 8.

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I like this man. Nigeria needs people who are daring and El rufai is one of them. Lack of courage and anticipation of second term votes from the electorates will prevent you from doing what is right. If you do the right thing and the results are evident after four years, your people will vote for you again without stress. You don't have to continue how things are done before just to please a few.

I Believe

Nigeria Will Be Great Again[b][/b]

GOD please give gorvernor the courage and wisdom to do that which is right so that other governor can maintane the same standard

satanoids hate dz man..he been dey giv them bad news..

By the time El-Rufai is done with KD, other states' govs will send assassins after him for showing them up.

He will be so hated by these govs like those "oversabi" kids our parents used to point out as examples for us to model our actions after when we were children.

Still wish, he could add FCT for a year or two to correct the mess left by that administrative anomaly called Bala Mohammed.

He might end up as the best performing governor in Nigeria. Some laudable initiatives.

So well guarded with tactics ....everything happen for a reason
Big Mr govnmt

That's a good development. So many ghost workers in the country. I hope we having many corruption fighters now. God help us in Nigeria. I still believe all will be well with our dear country

welcome dEVELOPMENT, LET THE WING CONTINUE TO BLOW.

NO MORE GHOST WORKERS..
GOOD FOR KADUNA.
BENEFITS TO THE MASSES AND FOR NIGERIANS.

HACKPASTOR:
welcome dEVELOPMENT, LET THE WING CONTINUE TO BLOW.


NO MORE GHOST WORKERS..

GOOD FOR KADUNA.

BENEFITS TO THE MASSES AND FOR NIGERIANS.

WING??

Every state should be compel to undergo same so as to wipe ghosts in human uniform milking the economy like vampire.

This man really knows his onions.

How ghost workers continues to be a norm in the civil service still baffles me even in this era where IT makes identification and verification simplified. There is certainly compromise within the system.

good move

Oshey, best governor award this year no shaking . If dem born ben bruce well make e no give you, we go recall him from senate ni

This is how they start and then later the ghost workers existing before he came on sit would be less than the ghost workers after he completes his tenure...I dont believe politicians until after a full tenure...