5000 ghost workers uncovered in Plateau state

No fewer than 5,000 ghost workers are on the payroll of the government of Nigeria’s Plateau state, Mr Yakubu Jang, the Special Adviser, Special Duties, to Plateau Governor, has revealed.

Jang, who is Chairman of the Biometric Data Capture Committee, authenticating the state’s 21,000 workers, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Sunday.

He said that 11,176 workers had so far been cleared and certified as authentic, adding that only those cleared would be paid the January salaries.

According to him, of the remaining, 5,000 cases are pending with 'small issues'.

“We have set up an appeal panel to determine their cases. So at the end of the day, we may end up with about 16,000 workers. There is practically nothing about the other 5,000 “employees’’.