A total of 2224 ghost workers have been detected in the Abia
State local government system, who have been drawing salaries from the 17 local
government areas of the state.
The revelation was made by the immediate past commissioner
for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in the State, Chief Charles
Ogbonnaya, when he faced members of the Abia State House of Assembly for
screening after being re-nominated following the dissolution of the cabinet by
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu.
Ogbonnaya, who was answering questions from members of the
House on his achievement in the Ministry before the last cabinet was dissolved,
explained that he set up the committee to fish out ghost workers in the system
following the high wage bill he met in the councils.
According to him, the exercise which covered the whole
councils would go a long way to save for the State a lot of money that used to
go to ghost pockets. The Commissioner- nominee also frowned at the large number
of autonomous communities in the state, saying that many of them are not
viable. Abia has over 700 autonomous communities, each with a monarch.
Vanguard
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