The Abia State Government says it has saved over N200 million on monthly wage bill following the ongoing verification of civil servants and other public workers in the State.
The disclosure was made by Deaconess Njum Onyemenam, the Accountant General of the State who said that the huge savings were made using a unified payment system.
She added that the verification exercise was still ongoing through which the Abia government hopes to make more savings.
“So far, we have been able to save N220 million from the ongoing verification of workers in the state, local governments and pensioners.
“Not less than 2,300 ghost names have been weeded out of the payrolls, using the unified payment system and we hope to still identify more as we continue with the exercise,” the Accountant General said.
She confirmed that following Governor Otti’s directive, government last week, paid the arrears of April salaries, left behind by the immediate past administration and also June pensions to retirees.
She further promised that local government staff in the State would receive their salaries this week as according to her, the delay in the LGA workers’ salaries were caused by their alleged refusal to submit themselves for verification.
