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Niger State Govt sacks 80 civil servants over fraud - Edoman - 09-10-2020
Niger State Govt sacks 80 civil servants over fraud
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The Niger State Government has dismissed 80 civil servants for allegedly placing themselves on salaries above their current status.
The state Head of Service, Salamatu Abubakar, who disclosed this during a press conference in Minna, said that their dismissal was approved by the state Executive Council at its meeting on Thursday, September 10.
The Head of Service Mrs Abubakar added that the officers placed themselves on allowances above their current status and entitlement.
She said the report of the committee was submitted to the office of the head of service which transmitted it to the Auditor General for further action.
The head of service added that the report was later presented to the state executive council, which approved the dismissal of the 80 officers from service on Thursday.
She said that the officers were from the Ministries of Health and Education, as well as Hospital Services and Management Board and Primary Health Care Development Agency.
Others were from School of Health Technology, Tunga Magajiya, School of Midwifery, the High Court and Sharia Court of the state Judiciary
RE: Niger State Govt sacks 80 civil servants over fraud - Edoman - 09-11-2020
Fake commissioner receives salaries for two years in Niger state
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A verification exercise carried out by the Niger state Government for its civil servants, has uncovered how workers fraudulently paid themselves salaries above their level.
Salamatu Abubakar, the state’s head of service who made the disclosure on Thursday September 11, said some of the fraudulent practices include an office messenger receiving the salary of a high court judge and a fake commissioner of agriculture getting salaries for the office for two years.
The verification exercise led to the sack of some of the civil servants and it was gathered that the health services management board had most culprits.
Other ministries and institutions affected were schools of nursing and health technology, primary health care development agency, ministries of health, education, judiciary and school of midwifery.
Haruna Dukku, the state commissioner of agriculture who commented on the development said he would have been mistaken to be the one earning double salaries if not for the verification exercise.
Dukku said;
Quote:“Somebody has been collecting the salary of the commissioner for agriculture in the last two years.
“The person makes it to look as if I am collecting double salary. What will I say if at the end of my tenure, the EFCC comes knocking and this thing has not been discovered before then?”
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