Indebted, Osun hunts out ghost workers

While it battles with payment of salary arrears, the Osun State government is also looking for ways to reduce its debt burden by hunting and weeding out ghost workers from its payroll.

Ripples gathered that the state government has quietly commenced a verification exercise of its work force by announcing that before arrears of salaries will be paid to any of its civil servants, they must first present their first school leaving Certificates.

Sources within the civil service confirmed that workers who recently applied for arrears of salaries were made to fill out a form with specific instructiins to attach photocopies of their primary school certificates.

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Sources within the state state government says this new position was adopted to check the activities of ghost workers in the civil service.

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