Ghost workers: Rivers saves N3.6b in 9 months
Posted by egobetter 314 days ago (Editorial)
Mr. Wikina was happy that the governor initiated the automated salary payment system because it has reduced the incidence of ghost workers. He said the electronic system was introduced following the bloated wage bill of the state Civil Service.
However, he was silent on the fate of the accounting officials who, Daily Sun reliably gathered, connived with some equally fraudulent government officials to be defrauding the State before the present administration introduced the new system.
Mr. Wikina said the two year-old administration has been insulated from the global economic meltdown because of some laws put in place that have enabled it to meet its obligations to the people.
"These are the Fiscal Responsibility Law, the Due Process Law and of course, the Compulsory Savings Law.
"Under the Compulsory Savings Law, the government saves N1 billion every month. No matter what the government does, it must comply with that law or you are violating it
"Secondly, our Due Process Law has ensured financial discipline and strict adherence to budgetary provisions and so, the issue of meltdown affecting governance is not yet feasible”,
The Chief Press Secretary said that although the State s Federal allocation has thinned by almost 50 percent, with the ceding of some of its oil wells to neighbouring States by the National Boundary Commission, and for which the government has gone to court, none of it approved projects would suffer.
“If you notice, our projects are going on and we are trying to meet up our contractual agreement and we are also into power projects.
“All these projects, according to our governor, represent a fraction of what a government must do for its people and so we don't have any excuse not to deliver, God willing:, he said.
