ABUJA—GOVERNOR Ibrahim Shema of Kastina State has said his government discovered 9,000 ghost workers on the payroll of the state.
Shema, who addressed stakeholders in Abuja, promised that his administration will do everything possible to stamp out the ghost workers syndrome in the state.
He explained that before the implementation of the payment of N18,000 minimum wage, his administration embarked on the biometric capturing of the civil servants in the state.
The biometric capturing exercise, according to him, was conducted by the state government in collaboration with the state chapter of Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, as well as a consultant, which led to the discovery of 9,000 ghost workers.
On the importance attached to education by his administration, Shema said: “Since inception, the administration has made education priority after realising that a lot of our children are out of school.
“Education is the number one item on the priority list of this administration. More than N40 billion had been committed to this sector in the past two years. The effect of this massive investment is in schools enrollment figure of the last five years.
“Whereas in 2004/2005 session only 142,729 students were in secondary school, the figure jumped to 1,045,141 in 2008/2009 session and 1,524,172 in the 2009/2010 session.
“Similarly, primary school enrollment, during the period, went up from 1,001,447 in 2005 to 1,278,418 in 2009.”
Posted: at 13-08-2012 11:24 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
9,000 multiply by 36 plus Abuja=333.000 ghost workers nationwide with an average wage of 150,000=49,950,000,000.00 Naira scam per month. How can we survive as a nation?
Posted: at 13-08-2012 04:55 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
dogodajiabuja at 13-08-2012 07:21 PM (11 years ago) (m)
419 started from hausas! yet they open their stinky mouth anytime igbos are involved imagine the amount of money they have been scaming the govement for years YET THEY REMAIN BEGGARS!
Posted: at 13-08-2012 07:21 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming
orjiwolo at 13-08-2012 07:36 PM (11 years ago) (m)
“Whereas in 2004/2005 session only 142,729 students were in secondary school" this was when Yaradua was the governor still they choose him to be president
Posted: at 13-08-2012 07:36 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Kanonhaki at 13-08-2012 10:12 PM (11 years ago) (m)
SIR WHAT UR GOVT.IS DOING ABOUT UNEMPLOYED YOUTH THAT HAVE SECURED THEIR NCE/ND/HND AND DEGREE WITHOUT JOB? WHAT ABOUT OUR PEASANT FARMERS.? AND ALSO WHAT HIS EXCELLENCY IS DOING TO ALLEVIATE POVERTY TO THE COMMON MAN IN KATSINA?
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