An audit panel set up by Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State to
conduct staff audit bio metric capturing exercise in the seventeen
(17) local government councils in the state has discovered a total of
three thousand, nine hundred and sixteen (3,916) ghost workers in the
system.
Presenting the report to the governor yesterday, the chairman of the
panel and the Speaker, Enugu State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Edward
Ubosi also disclosed that a total of One hundred and sixty one
million, four hundred and ninety four thousand, five hundred and
seventy naira (N161, 494, 570) only, found to b e the difference in
the wage bill after the exercise, has been saved.
Giving a breakdown of the figures, Ubosi said; “from the above, the
sum of (N64, 882, 033) sixty four million, eight hundred and eighty
two thousand, thirty three naira, and Ninety six million, six hundred
and twelve thousand, three hundred and thirty seven naira, twenty kobo
(N96, 612, 337.20) only, from local government staff gross salaries
and teacher salaries respectively should be regarded as monthly
savings.”
Governor Ugwuanyi who received the report commended the audit panel
for a job well done saying it will go a long way in helping the state
government in the on-going efforts to track down ghost workers in the
state public service.
The committee made a total of 26 recommendations for consideration by
the government among which is the removal of all those staff in the
system found out to have falsified their ages those in capacitated by
ill health, those employed contrary to the rule f civil service and
those found to be impersonators in the system.
It also recommended that more teachers be engaged in the primary
schools in the state.
The committee also suggested general posting of local government staff
after the bio metric capturing exercise to re-engineer more discipline
in the system.
