The recent claims by Kogi State Government that they have discovered 18,211 ghost workers in the state is untrue. The outrageous manipulated figures is a complete fallacy orchestrated by the state government.
There are unpardonable contradictions in the whole exercise!
How can you maliciously declare that a civil servant is a ghost worker and then set up a panel to listen to appeals? It is like putting the cart before the horse. It means Governor Yahaya Bello will still announce another figure after the review. This is nothing but self contradiction and confusion.
The well celebrated figure of ghost workers is a false flag! The figure is fallacious, flawed, distorted, baseless and groundless lies from the table of the Governor and his chief manipulator. The figures were concocted with the ploy to circumvent or bypass the real issues without kogites at all dreaming of distrusting their sincerity.
Bello threw away the same Dr Agbaji-led committee he set up and accepted the report of the back up committee headed by state Auditor-General who refused to interface with the workers .
The figure announced is outrageous, well concocted! It can as well be described as a hoax and charade. We will not play dumb. No matter what, the figure is false evidence and unrealisable.
18,211 is a new stunt designed and manufactured to conflict with the NLC Stand on Kogi state missing bailout fund. The figure is aiming at diverting attention and paint state civil servants in a bad light.
I am speechless, though mouth full of words!
A government that fails to control or regulate the outflow of its information from its own information power bank, is doomed to be caught lying. Virtually every government official in the administration of Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State is a “spokesperson.”
The above outrageous figure is part of the ongoing manipulation of the unpopular government in Lugard House.
Bello will never cease to amaze me! As at July 7, 2016, Bello announced that “Kogi uncovered 9,000 ghost workers from screening exercise through one Petra Onyegbule on the same date Vanguard reported that 9,720 ghost workers in the payroll of Kogi State government, has been uncovered by the committee on staff screening and verification in the state according to the Chairman of the committee, Mr Jerry Agbaji,
18 days later, the government through Edward Onoja and one Usman Ododo took to the media on Monday to announce 18,211 as the number of ghost workers in Kogi state! This is coming after threat from the Organised Labour and intimidating speech delivered by Comrade Ayuba Wabba. The shivering and shaking Bello, instead of doing the right things as instructed and strongly advised, has chosen the way of propaganda and keep swimming in self contradiction.
The numbers of ghost workers keep jumping up and down!
It is now obvious and crystal clear that the government is suffering from dwindling personality and will do everything to catch attention but to keep blackmailing legitimate workers will not help Bello and his co-travellers.
I insist Bello is sacking in disguise as those he labeled ghost workers are human beings with legitimate appointment letters.
What we have is just a retinue of overzealous noise makers and indecorous propagandists who have a penchant for reckless attack on anybody that dare to expose the inadequacies of their nonchalant boss. Many of them have reduced themselves to mere announcers of the governor’s condolence visits or attendance of marriage ceremonies.
My friend, Akpa John, opined that after detecting 18,211 ghost workers, don’t we, the people, deserve to have a list of those ghosts?
Through which of the MDAs were these ghosts being paid? What is the total number of genuine civil servants today after the verification exercise and what is the state’s salary bill now compared to the =N=2.8bn we have been fed with all these while?
Who are those that saw to the perpetuation of this scheme, and how long has it gone on? How much has Kogi lost over the years?
I watched Gov Bello’s television show yesterday and I must confess there are a lot of gaps yet to be covered. Pensioners, of whom I have many senior friends, have not all been paid the portion you announced even as at today. These are not ghosts, they are alive!!! ”
We, the people of Kogi state, deserve answers to be these questions please.
There is still time to make amends if the governor so wishes.
In six months now, Kogi state must have saved N6 billion from the uncovered Ghosts on the state payroll. Where is the money? Bello has so far collected state allocation not less than 2.5 Billion Naira monthly for 7 months now.
If you have declared the 18,211 and you set up a committee to review the ghost workers are you going to announce another figure after the review committee submit it report?
