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Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo
The Anambra State Native Authorities Service Fee mentioned it had found over 427 ghost employees incomes salaries from the state authorities with out being employees members.
The Chairman of the Fee, Vin Ezeaka, disclosed this to journalists in Awka, the state capital, on Friday.
Ezeaka mentioned the fee additionally found that about six senior staff on the numerous native authorities areas solid their certificates purportedly to have been issued by the Imo State College.
Based on him, among the many ghost employees embody 59 employees of the fee who had died a very long time in the past, 40 others who had retired and are nonetheless on the payroll of the fee, and about 11 others dwelling overseas are on the payroll of the state authorities.
He mentioned, “The invention was made throughout a employees personnel audit launched to sanitise the native authorities system within the state. Within the course of, a startling revelation of over 427 employees had been found to have been on the native authorities payroll with out being staffed.
“Out of the 427 ghost employees uncovered, 59 had been employees of the fee who had died a very long time in the past, 40 others had retired and are nonetheless on the payroll of the fee, whereas about 11 others are employees dwelling overseas whose names had been nonetheless on the payroll of presidency.
“Others had been some employees members of Nnamdi Azikiwe College, Awka, and Nwafor Orizu Faculty of Training, Nsugbe. We found 59 deceased employees who’re nonetheless receiving salaries, 40 retirees additionally receiving salaries, and above all, we found 222 employees on the payroll who no person may determine as employees in any of the 21 LGAs and we now have lots of them dwelling overseas and nonetheless receiving salaries.
“So we wrote to the Joint Account to take away them from the payroll. A few of them have come to voluntarily retire, however we refused as a result of you may’t cheat the federal government and wish to retire.
“We’re going to end our investigation and people we caught on this unholy act will face the complete wrath of the legislation in accordance with civil service guidelines.
“Other than this discovery, made on the finish of Might 2024, one thing dramatic occurred, we descended on the certificates racketeering cartel inside the native authorities system. We arrange a committee that got here up with stories of individuals with suspicious certificates working in numerous native authorities areas of Anambra State and we then arrange a screening committee that indicted so lots of them.
“These indicted had been recognized and we began investigating the certificates they offered to the committee and went so far as going to the schools whose certificates they brandished and out of the 20 individuals who tendered Imo State College certificates, we screened 14 to this point, the place we found that six out of the 14 had been pretend certificates.
“So we now have handled that side additionally. It’s our responsibility to sanitise the system according to the mandate given to us by the state governor, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo in order that the real employees who sacrifice their time and vitality can get worth for his or her service and never looters who don’t contribute something to the event of Anambra state.”
The fee chairman additional disclosed that the continuing native authorities and certificates verification was not for any witch-hunt, however purely to sanitise the system, including that even senior native authorities employees, together with deputy administrators and treasurers, had been additionally sacked for pretend certificates.
Ezeaka mentioned these working with solid certificates within the LGA system within the state had been given a grace interval to come back and voluntarily report themselves or be sacked when the amnesty would elapse.
