Speaking on the ongoing screening of state and local government workers, the governor said that all sorts of tricks were devised to shortchange the workers, describing as worst, the scourge
of ghost workers in the civil service.
The party said it believed that the streamlining of all public sector workers salaries through the IPPIS would greatly reduce public funds wastage, especially
cases of ghost workers be-devilling the public sector.
The Minister has played leading roles in the development of various cost cutting initiatives through the pursuit of carefully thought out policies aimed at promoting transparency in the payment process, drastic reviews of the procurement process, and the sanitisation of the public - sector payroll system which led to the elimination of huge
number of ghost workers.
Bringing the three former chairmen in, was to enable him stabilize the Local Government Administration in the state, and you know that there is a committee that was constituted to look into the Local Government Affairs in
terms of ghost workers and other issues.
Sen. Dino Melaye (APC - Kogi West), who spoke on behalf of the party at a Press Briefing held in Abuja on Friday, said that staff audit the world over was a periodic exercise to monitor and evaluate public servants for promotions, retirements, new employment opportunities and
elimination of ghost workers.
The EFCC said he was arrested after the Ministry of Finance petitioned the agency in February 2016 requesting for «payroll fraud investigation» as part of efforts to unravel various techniques used by fraudsters to defraud the Nigerian government by
way of ghost workers.