{"id":106176,"date":"2023-07-18T02:17:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T01:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=106176"},"modified":"2023-07-18T02:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T01:17:16","slug":"abia-discovers-2300-ghost-names-in-payrollsaves-n220m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abia-discovers-2300-ghost-names-in-payrollsaves-n220m\/","title":{"rendered":"Abia discovers 2,300 ghost names in payroll,saves N220m\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Abia State government has said it has saved\u00a0 N220m following the discovery of 2,300 ghost names on the state payroll.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0The amount N220 million was discovered over the ongoing verification of civil servants and other public workers in the state.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">State Accountant General, Deaconess Njum Onyemenam,\u00a0 disclosed that the huge discovery and savings were made using a unified payment system.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Onyemenam, who stated this after a meeting with Governor Alex Otti, added that the government hopes to make more savings from the ongoing verification exercise.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to her,&#8221;So far, we have been able to save N220 million from the ongoing verification of workers in the state, local governments and pensioners.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;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,&#8221; the Accountant General said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The commissioner further confirmed that following Governor&#8217;s directive, government had last week paid the arrears of April salaries, left behind by the immediate past administration and also June pensions to retirees.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Also, local government staff, 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.&#8221;<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abia State government has said it has saved\u00a0 N220m following the discovery of 2,300 ghost names on the state payroll. \u00a0The amount N220 million was discovered over the ongoing verification&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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