Shocking: Dead People are Currently on Benue State's Payroll...See Details

 

Benue State government, yesterday, said it had uncovered payroll fraud where dead and retired civil servants were being used to fraudulently draw salaries, Vanguard reports.

 

The Deputy Governor of the state, Mr. Benson Abounu, who made this known at the commencement of the modified stable payment of salaries and screening of civil servants in the state, lamented that salary padding had also constituted a huge drain on the finances of the government.

 

Abounu said: “We did a mock screening of civil servants and discovered that of the 10 employees we screened, three of them ought to have been retired but are still in service receiving salaries.

 

 

The Deputy Governor, who heads the screening committee, stated that the exercise which will cover the supposed 19,000 employees of state civil service and 25,000 local government workers will completely eliminate ghost workers in the system.