How We Uncovered 579 Ghost Workers And Workers Employed Under Ex-Gov Jang With  Fake Employment Letters

Yakubu Busari

Plateau State Government has uncovered 579 ghost workers and 101 persons to refund N76, 763,551.15  to the State government for staying in service beyond their terminal dates including fake employment letter under former Governor Jonah David Jang administration .

The state commissioner for information and communication, Alh Muhammadu Nazif gave this disclosure during a press Conference at the Joseph Secretariat, Jos.

The government scooped the money through the ongoing BVN matching service for state employees and pensioners was carried out at the end of the exercise, 579 were taken off the salary payroll for various reasons, he explains.

Hon Nazif 68,554.694.27 monthly for the state government there had been improper documentation and some of them were employed with underage reading 2003 to 2017 which enjoy double promotion in less than ten, 10, years as senior officer.

According to him, the state government under its skills development program, the ministry trained nineteen people in knitting, sewing, cosmetology, catering and bead making at the end of which they received some support for takeoff. Adding, the state collaboration with the Sir Ahmadu Bello Foundation trains 100 women and youth on catering, fabric, dyeing, poultry and cosmetic.

Nazif added a partnership was also entered into with the industrial Training Fund, ITF, to train 60 women, youths in garment making and catering in the state.

He noted that the ministry in collaboration with the plateau Aids Control Agency assisted by the World Bank enrolled  50 persons living with HIV, Aids, orphans and vulnerable children and care givers for training in the following as a form of empowerment tailoring  knitting, shoe making, catering, hair dressing and computer applications.

Furthermore ,the ministry developed the state specific priority actions across sector relevant to child protection following which the final documents was launched by the state governor in September 2016.