Bauchi State Government said it has uncovered about 89 medical doctors who are illegally on its payroll.
The doctors, according to the government are earning salaries where they are employed while still drawing from its coffers.
The state’s Commissioner of Works, Abdulkadir Ibrahim, who disclosed this while briefing newsmen after the weekly State Executive Council (SEC) meeting held on Wednesday at the Banquet Hall of the Government House, Bauchi, said the discovery was made through the verification exercise conducted by the government in its resolve to know the actual number of the workers on its payroll.
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He said that a cabal has hijacked the payroll of the government siphoning the purse.
“The annoying thing is that these medical doctors were trained with the resources of the government but they chose to work elsewhere, yet, they are illegally taking money that is supposed to be used for others, that is unfair.
“There was a discovery of one person who was drawing salaries from the Local Government, as well as the state government while another person’s account was used by the cabal to take the sum of N2m monthly without him knowing. No level of intimidation and name-calling will stop the government from the implementation of the civil service reforms as no one is marked out for victimisation by the exercise,” he said.
