8-year-old children’ among teachers on payroll of Bauchi government

The verification committee setup by Bauchi State Government to expose ghost workers, on Monday, revealed that eight-year old children, listed as ‘teachers’ were discovered to be on the payroll of the government.
The State Accountant-General and also a member of the committee, Alhaji Abubakar Gabi, revealed this in an Interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said: “We have discovered that names of children between eight and ten years of age appeared as ‘teachers’ on the payroll of the state”.

“We also discovered that some of the pensioners duplicated their payment papers; had the same names, same BVN, same GSM numbers and same account numbers but bearing different photographs attached.”
“Again we discovered instances where deceased families who had earlier submitted death certificates of their heads and were paid bulk pension entitlements, fraudulently working their way back and are still collecting pensions.”
The AG further revealed that 7,300 out of the 29, 000 teachers were also discovered to be ghost teachers.
“We have so far discovered over 19,000 ghost workers while only 7,000 pensioners out of the alleged 14,000 pensioners have turned up for screening,” he revealed.