Niger state government has dismissed 80 workers for alleged involvement in salary racketeering and other fraudulent activities in the state civil service.
The state Head of Service (HOS), Salanatu Abubakar, stated this Thursday ay a press briefing after the State Executive Council meeting in Minna.
She said the dismissal of the workers was approved at the council meeting presided over by the state Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello.
According to her, “The affected workers have been indicted by the Salary Management Committee set up by the government to investigate the huge salary bill of the state.
The HOS explained that the affected staff were invited and interviewed by the committee during which they confessed to their various crimes.
She gave breakdown of the figure of the sacked workers to include 45 staff of the state Hospital Management Services, 22 judicial staff, seven from the Ministry of Health, three workers from Primary Health Care Development Agency, one each from the Ministry of Education, school of Midwifery, Minna and School of Health Technology, Tunga Magajiya.
Abubakar said the state Civil Service Commission has been directed to issue appropriate letters to the dismissed staff.
It was learnt that some of the dismissed staff placed themselves on allowances beyond their entitlements while a messager in the state judiciary was collecting salary of a judge for years.