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Jigawa discovers 6,348 ghost workers on payroll

The Jigawa State government has uncovered 6,348 ghost workers on its payroll.
The state’s Commissioner for Information, Youths, Sports and Culture, Sagir Musa, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Dutse.
He said the ghost workers were discovered in the staff verification exercise in the state.
According to him, the report of the Statewide Staff Audit Biometric Data Capture and Validation Exercise showed that 6,348 ghost workers had been detected and saved the state over N314 million monthly.
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Musa said the State Executive Council had studied the report and approved the establishment of the Continuous Capture Centre (CCC) at the Office of the Head of the Civil Service.
This, according to him, will fast-track the completion of the data capture and validation exercise as part of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Management System (IPPMS).
He said: “The exercise resulted in the detection of 6,348 ghost workers and significantly saved cost with an average of N314, 657,342.06 per month and N3, 775,888,809.72 per annum.”
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