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Adamawa Gov dismisses claims he ordered sack of LG workers
Adamawa State Governor, Ahmadu Fintiri, has denied reports from some quarters claiming that he ordered the sack of all council workers recruited in the state from April 2016. He described such claims as “erroneous”.
This was contained in a statement by the Governor’s Director-General, Media and Communications, Solomon Kumangar, on Wednesday in Yola, he described the report as “erroneous”.
He said: “It has become pertinent to draw the attention of the public to the misleading and erroneous information making the rounds to the effect that Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, has sacked Local Government workers recruited from April 2016.
“The information is totally baseless, unfounded and untrue.
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“For the avoidance of doubt, Governor Fintiri only directed Local Government Councils to clean their payrolls of all ghost workers beginning from April 2016 when the Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs took over the payment of Local Governments across the State.”
The statement alleged that some names were inserted into the payrolls of councils without recourse to due process which over-bloated the wage bill thereby posing developmental challenges at the LGs.
It said the governor, who was committed to zero-tolerance for corruption, saw the need to stop the use of LGs as conduit pipes by corrupt officials.
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