BY UGOCHUKWU UGOJI-EKE
Abia State Government said it has saved over N200 million on monthly wage bill following ongoing verification of civil servants and other public workers in the state.
State Accountant General, Deaconess Njum Onyemenam, said the huge savings came using a unified payment system.
Onyemenam, who spoke yesterday after a meeting with the state Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, in Umuahia, the state capital, said the verification exercise was still ongoing, adding that the government hopes to make more savings.
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She said: “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.”
She confirmed that following Governor Otti’s directive, government had last week paid the arrears of April salaries, left behind by the immediate past administration, as well as June pensions to retirees.
Onyemenam said that local government workers who had been skipped when the June salaries were paid, due to their failure to submit their verified payment schedule, will receive their salaries this week.
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