The Bayelsa government said the ongoing public service reforms has reduced its workforce from fifty-five thousand to twenty-seven thousand thus fishing out and expunging twenty-eight thousand ghost workers from its payroll.
The Bayelsa Commissioner for Information, Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, made this known in a statement today in Yenagoa.
Iworiso-Markson was reacting to criticism by the Bayelsa chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) to the job losses occasioned by the management of the reforms.
He berated APC for criticising the reforms, adding that the aim was to deal with payroll fraud and not to sack workers.
It would be recalled that an APC member of the Bayelsa House of Assembly, Mr Israel Soni-Golihad said that the government was not managing the reforms properly.
The government however said the APC only made a failed attempt to discredit the well intentioned and generally received public sector reforms in Bayelsa.
He added that any politician attempting to attack the reforms and the removal of fictitious names from the payroll is an enemy of Bayelsa and her people.
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