The Abia State Government has announced significant savings of over N200 million on its monthly wage bill as a result of an extensive verification exercise conducted on civil servants and public workers.
This exercise successfully identified and eliminated over 2,300 ghost workers from the state’s payroll.
In a statement released on Monday by Kazie Uko, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Alex Otti, the state’s Accountant General, Njum Onyemenam, disclosed that the savings were achieved through the implementation of a unified payment system.
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