Bauchi State Government said it has lost over N1.062 billion to ghost workers and pensioners between June 2016 and January 2020.
The state’s Commissioner of Finance, Umar Sanda, made this known while briefing journalists on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting held on Wednesday.
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According to him, a memorandum of the committee on some of the findings on the issue of ghost workers from June 2016 to January 2020, involving 259 ghost workers, were mindboggling.
He disclosed that in the state payroll, a total of 193 people were involved, while over N270m was lost in the fraud.
The Commissioner further disclosed that at the local government payroll, 66 persons were involved and had collected over N792m.
He said, however, that arrests are being made.
He said, “The total amount of fraud for both the state and local government payrolls is N1.062bn.
“We’ve been arresting the culprits, but the problem is that they always change their names. We’ve not taken any definite decision on where to take the culprits because it is an ongoing process.”
