MAKURDI—Bothered by the increasing high monthly wage bill of
the Benue State government, members of the State House of Assembly are
embarking on the biometric screening of the workers in the state to ascertain
their actual figures to check the menace of ghost workers.
Majority Leader of the Assembly and All Progressives
Congress, APC, chieftain Benjamin Adanyi, who made this known in Makurdi, said
members would in the coming days break into groups and embark on the exercise
around the state.
He said, “What we want to do in the coming days is part of
our deliberate efforts to assist the executive arm of government ensure
that all loopholes and leakages through which government
resources were siphoned during the past administration were blocked.
”Constitutionally, we owe the people the duty of oversight
to ensure that these anomalies are checked because we are aware that people
were collecting monies as salaries of non-existent workers by over-bloating the
wage bill and defrauding the government.
“The present administration is determined to check all that.
We will not only stop the practice and reduce the government’s wage bill, we
will also, ensure that all those who had a hand in perpetrating the sinister
practice are brought to book.”
Adanyi, who reiterated the determination of the lawmakers to
support and ensure that the zero tolerance for corruption of the present
administration in the state succeeded, urged the people to rally support for
the administration.
“So far, Governor Samuel Ortom has maintained his anti
corruption stance, we know that he would not derail, the stakes are high and he
is committed to availing the people the much craved dividends of democracy and
not contemplating failure in any area.”
Credit: Vanguard
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