Borno state governor, Babagana Zulum has stated that an employee verification exercise uncovered names of babies in the payroll of.
Zulum who made this known at the Menwara Cultural Festival in Shani Town on Saturday, November 27, said N19 million was paid to fake employees monthly.
Daily Trust reports that the monthly salaries and allowances paid to fake employees including the babies were reportedly being siphoned by corrupt officials.
According to him, the verification exercise was meant to sanitize the civil service by removing phony employees from the payrolls but people who are against it staged protests in Shani.
Hr said “Let me inform you that in the end of the verification exercise, names of babies were found in the payrolls while N19 million was paid to fake employees in Shani Local Government Area monthly. It was discovered that one family alone has 300 fake employees and if this trend continues, I am afraid, Shani LGA may not be able to pay the monthly salaries of its employees, in the future.”
He directed the Commissioner of Local Government and Emirate Affairs, Sugum Mai Mele to verify the exercise and reenlist employees with genuine certificates and those erroneously dismissed from service.
He also said job offers meant for the natives of Shani were sold by fraudulent officials at N250,000 each thereby depriving unemployed graduates of job opportunities.
He further said people with teaching qualifications will be employed as teachers in public schools soon.
