{"id":37089,"date":"2020-10-29T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=37089"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:39:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T11:39:23","slug":"bauchi-govt-loses-n1-062bn-to-ghost-workers-fake-pensioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=37089","title":{"rendered":"Bauchi govt loses N1.062bn to ghost workers, fake pensioners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Bauchi State government has revealed that it has lost over N1.062 billion to ghost workers and fake pensioners between June 2016 and January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was disclosed on Wednesday by the state Commissioner of Finance, Umar Sanda, who spoke to newsmen who probed him about the outcome of the Bauchi State Executive Council meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said; \u201cA memorandum of the committee on some of the findings on the issue of ghost workers from June 2016 to January 2020, involving 259\u00a0ghost workers<\/a>, were mindboggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the state payroll, a total of 193 people were involved, while over N270m was lost in the fraud. At the local government payroll, 66 persons were involved and had collected over N792m,\u201d Sanda added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, \u201cThe total amount of fraud for both the state and local government payrolls is N1.062bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Sanda, the state government had been arresting culprits involved in the scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been arresting the culprits, but the problem is that they always change their names. We\u2019ve not taken any definite decision on where to take the culprits because it is an ongoing process,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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