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Kano ghost cleaners collect N18m monthly, for 3yrs

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About three quarters of the 2,490 casual workers engaged by the Kano State Refuse Management and Sanitation Board as street cleaners, are ghost workers, and about N18.1 million is being spent by the directors in the agency to pay them every month.

This was made known by the Kano State Commissioner for Information, Malam Garba Mohammed, while speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Saturday.

He said the figure was presented to the State Executive Council during its meeting on Wednesday by the committee recently set up to verify the actual number of the workers.

“According to the committee’s report, out of the 2,490 casual workers of the board, 1,830 are ghost workers.

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”So, based on the report, the state government is losing N18.1m monthly and this is one of the allegations that led to the setting up of the committee to investigate the issue. You will be surprised to know that for the past three years, the people had been siphoning the money every month,’’ he said.

He added that names of about six directors, alleged to have been involved in the scandal, had been forwarded to the office of the Head of Civil Service for appropriate disciplinary action.

“The office of the Head of Service will investigate their individual involvement with a view to coming up with appropriate punishment,’’ he said.

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