Bauchi State Government has lost over N1.062 billion to ghost workers and pensioners between June 2016 and January 2020.

The state Commissioner of Finance, Umar Sanda, disclosed this while addressing journalists on the outcome of the Bauchi State Executive Council meeting held on Wednesday.

He said a memorandum of the committee on some of the findings on the issue of ghost workers from June 2016 to January 2020, involving 259 ghost workers, were mindboggling.

According to him, in the state payroll, a total of 193 people were involved, while over N270m was lost in the fraud.

Sanda added that at the local government payroll, 66 persons were involved and had collected over N792m.

He said, “The total amount of fraud for both the state and local government payrolls is N1.062bn.

On the issue of prosecution, he said the state government had been arresting culprits.

“We’ve been arresting the culprits, but the problem is that they always change their names. We’ve not taken any definite decision on where to take the culprits because it is an ongoing process,” he added.

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jidamsel43:
Corporate looter. Our Governors are the major problem of this country. The looting scenarios in the country have made people realize that the Federal Government has its part to ameliorate the suffering of the people. The state Governors have been depriving the masses of this palliative to resell or share with their close relatives. Posterity will judge most of our governors for torment and hardship that these have caused the masses

Iyocartel:
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Obodo emebigo
This country has gone to the dogs, these are the people Sarz and efcc are supposed to be going after but they won't let young hustlers who are trying to bring all the money the whites stole from us and make them pay for all the pains they caused our fathers.
I keep bombing everyday as if i dey work with isis