The Niger state government has sacked 80 civil servants over
alleged fraud.
Speaking with journalists on Thursday, in Minna, the state capital, Salamatu Abubakar, the state’s head of service, said the affected workers fraudulently paid themselves salaries above their level.
She said the fraud was discovered during the recent
verification exercise for all civil servants.
Abubakar said some of the sharp practices discovered was an
office messenger receiving the salary of a high court judge and a fake commissioner
of agriculture getting salaries for the office for two years.
The head of service said the suspects were from different
agencies and ministries, and that the health services management board had most
culprits.
Other ministries and institutions affected were schools of
nursing and health technology, primary health care development agency,
ministries of health, education, judiciary and school of midwifery.
Haruna Dukku, the state commissioner of agriculture, said he
would have been mistaken to be the one earning double salaries if not for the
discovery.
“Somebody has been collecting the salary of the commissioner
for agriculture in the last two years,” he said.
“The person makes it to look as if I am collecting double
salary. What will I say if at the end of my tenure, the EFCC comes knocking and
this thing has not been discovered before then?”
Earlier in the month, the verification exercise committee
uncovered a senior civil servant who smuggled his brother’s name into the
state’s payroll and received salaries for 11 years.
In June, the Niger state government discovered monthly
payment of over N672 million as salaries to ghost workers in the civil service.
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