Plateau State Government has uncovered 579 ghost workers and
101 persons to refund N76, 763,551.15 to
the State government for staying in service beyond their terminal dates
including fake employment letter.
The state commissioner for information and communication,
Alh Muhammadu Nazif gave this disclosure during a press Conference at the
Joseph Secretariat, Jos.
The government scooped the money through the ongoing BVN
matching service for state employees and pensioners was carried out at the end
of the exercise, 579 were taken off the salary payroll for various reasons, he
explains.
Hon Nazif 68,554.694.27 monthly for the state government
there had been improper documentation and some of them were employed with
underage reading 2003 to 2017 which enjoy double promotion in less than ten,
10, years as senior officer.
According to him, the state government under its skills
development program, the ministry trained nineteen people in knitting, sewing,
cosmetology, catering and bead making at the end of which they received some
support for takeoff. Adding, the state collaboration with the Sir Ahmadu Bello
Foundation trains 100 women and youth on catering, fabric, dyeing, poultry and
cosmetic.
Nazif added a partnership was also entered into with the
industrial Training Fund, ITF, to train 60 women, youths in garment making and
catering in the state.
He noted that the ministry in collaboration with the plateau
Aids Control Agency assisted by the World Bank enrolled 50 persons living with HIV, Aids, orphans and
vulnerable children and care givers for training in the following as a form of
empowerment tailoring knitting, shoe
making, catering, hair dressing and computer applications.
Furthermore ,the ministry developed the state specific
priority actions across sector relevant to child protection following which the
final documents was launched by the state governor in September 2016.
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