Plateau State Government uncovered 579 ghost workers and 101 persons to refund over N76 millions naira

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.

collaboration with State Governments Over Condemned Convicts

The Controller of Prisons Plateau State Command, Ailewon Noel open rooms for collaboration with state Governments over Condemned Convicts within His Command.

Speaking on behalf of the controller of Prisons, the state command public Relation officer, Assistant Superintendent of Prison, Asp, Luka Ayedoo at the state headquarters on Monday in Jos, said the comptroller is calling for partnership with the private sector, NGO and the states governors within her jurisdiction over condemned Convicts.

The Controller stressed that safe custody, reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates in order to ensure a crime free society is the cardinal objectives of the Nigerian prisons service.

He explained that Jos Prison Houses Condemned Convicts from the North-East and North Central which informs the current swelling in the number of condemned prisoners in the Command.

He opined  that the Nigerian Prisons Like any other Security Organization in the  country is bedeviled by challenges ranging from the stigmatization of discharged inmates, prolonged neglect by the society  and over stretched facilities.

Noel reiterated that custodial education has been one of the major instrument utilized by the NPS to reduce the rate of crime in the state.

The NPS has employed all the strategies and policies into her custodian education program for the de-radicalization of inmates. The program includes tertiary education, secondary education, adult literacy, vocational and skills acquisition programs.

He disclosed that these are programs are employed by the department to ensure productiveness of the inmate who return back to the society nationwide.

2019: Why Plateau state central zone should support Gov. Lalong

A journalist and a Plateau state based political commentator comrade Sati Tanko called on the people of the Central Senatorial Zone to support Gov. Lalong in 2019, so that the zone’s turn in 2023 will not be truncated.

He said, the central zone need to safeguard the zoning arrangement that brought Lalong into power noting that anything short of that will affect the zone negatively.

Speaking to the grassroots news, Sati said, it will be wise for the zone to support Lalong to complete his constitutional and traditional two terms in office, adding that bringing in a new person who might want to complete his two term in office will deny the central zone the opportunity of producing a governor comes 2023.

Sati believed that Governor Lalong has proven his critic wrong as he continues to do credibly well and accomplish magnificent things in the state notwithstanding the economic recession. His feat in clearing all the backlog of salaries and pension arrears has endeared him to the heart of the Plateau people, aside from that, his accomplishment in revamping the moribund industries is a testimony to fact that he is indeed a rescue governor.

Comrade Sati also, held that the five pillars policy thrust of the Lalong led rescue administration has taken Plateau state into an enviable height among the comity of states in the country.

Comrade Sati Tanko noted that the massive decamping of politicians from other political parties most especially from the PDP to APC is an indication that Plateau people are responding to the impact of the Gov. Lalong led rescue administration and therefore want to be identified.

He said, with the decamping of Senator Dariye and the deputy speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Yusuf Gagdi and host of others to APC has fortified the party position in the zone, coupled with the fact that the two Members of House of Reps in the zone have performed miserably poor.

Sati said the poor performances of Hon. Timothy Golu and Hon. Solomon Maren has continued to weaken the PDP in the central senatorial zone, noting that Timothy Golu has abundant his political supporters and admirers, especially those he works with when he was in State House of Assembly, and his continued disrespect to the elders of his political party is disheartening.

Comrade Sati called on the politicians in the central zone to begin to search for a credible candidate, because six years is just around the corner, we need to began to packaged candidates that would be acceptable to all Plateau people comes 2023 and the time is now.