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    Biometric Screening Committee Detects Ghost Workers, Recovers N4.6m From Payroll

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    By Segun Olaniyan

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    Biometric Screening Committee Detects Ghost Workers, Recovers N4.6m From Payroll

    KATSINA – Despite political pressures and warnings, the Biometric Screen-ing Committee on staff of the 34 Local Government Areas and Local Education Authorities of Katsina State has submitted its report to the state government, recovering N4.6 million excess from council payrolls.

    Similarly, during the course of the exercise, the committee pro-jected a N453.3 million monthly savings and detected 3,488 un-qualified staff from amongst the 50,172 council staff screened.

    Speaking shortly after receiv-ing the report, Governor Dikko Umar Radda commended the committee for delivering credible results despite political pressures and warnings from critics.

    “We have been in the system for a long time, and we know these things exist. Many people complained and even warned me that the committee’s work could damage my politics and cost me elections.

    “But, I was not worried, be-cause the situation in Katsina required reforming the system and doing the right thing,” the governor stated.

    He directed that the report should become a White Paper for full implementation, emphasis-ing that every recommendation must be carried out with honesty and fairness.

    Radda disclosed that local gov-ernments currently had about half a billion naira saved, which would reach ₦5.7 billion with the committee’s findings.

    “Despite high revenue alloca-tions, many local governments in Katsina still struggle to pay salaries. Councils such as Kafur, Malumfashi, and Daura carry very heavy wage bills, mostly due to workers who are not genuine,” he explained.

    The governor emphasised that reducing this burden would free up more funds to support grassroots development.

    “I did this to save the state from the grip of a few. This is how we can have money to work for the general people in our local governments,” Radda concluded.

    The Committee Chairman, Abdullahi Gagare, earlier, re-vealed that out of 50,172 staff screened, 46,380 were success-fully verified, while 3,488 were removed for presenting fake cre-dentials, absconding from duty, engaging in fraud, or refusing to appear before the committee.

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