‘Imo Staff Verification Will Expose Ghost Workers’

The Imo government on Friday threatened to consider local government employees who failed to provide their credentials at the ongoing staff verification as ghost workers.

The chairman of the state’s Local Government Service Commission, Dr Mathew Nwogu, made the threat in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Owerri.

He said the essence of the exercise was to fish out ghost workers and those due for retirement but still in the service.

He said the state government would give those who failed to show up at the commencement of the exercise an opportunity to tender their credentials.

“There are some people who failed to tender their credentials when we started. The state government has resolved to give such people another chance.

“Any worker who fails to utilise the second chance may have himself to blame,” he said.

Nwogu said the exercise would enhance productivity, adding: “This exercise will reawaken workers as it will help us place qualified persons in their rightful place and sack those without certificates.”

He said the government had discovered more than 4,000 ghost workers in the 27 local government areas during similar exercise in 2010.

The chairman, however, said the government would not relent in its effort to sanitise the system and urged the workers to be serious in discharging their duties.

He said the state government had concluded plans to conduct a promotion exercise for the council workers.

- Leadership

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