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Over 400 ghost teachers uncovered in Benue
Benue state teaching service board has disclosed that it has uncovered 433 ghost workers, including 18 dead persons in its payroll.
The board’s executive secretary, Frank Kyungun made the disclosure on Wednesday, August 5 while presenting the report of the screening exercise recently conducted by the board to Governor Samuel Ortom.
He said;
“The screening uncovered 433 ghost workers on the payroll after verification of 4,473 staff across the three senatorial zones of the state.
“The screening committee also uncovered 18 dead persons, 70 retired staff, 193 redeployed staff, among other irregularities on the payroll, who were accordingly expunged.”
Commenting on the report, Governor Ortom said he has constituted a committee to immediately implement the committee’s recommendation. Dennis Ityavyar, the state commissioner for education, has been appointed to head the committee.
He said;
“Those who had milked the board through ghost workers must be identified and prosecuted.
“The ghost names should be immediately deleted from the payment voucher”.
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