100 fake doctors removed from Bauchi govt payroll

Bauchi State government on Thursday disclosed that 100 doctors are among the 1,279 workers it identified and removed from the state’s Ministry of Health payroll.

Their removal, according to the state governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, is part of the government’s efforts to sanitize the state’s nominal payroll system.

Governor Mohammed disclosed this during a public parley with stakeholders on problems associated with the management and payment of salaries of civil servants.

The governor said the state is being confronted with a great challenge of sorting out what he described as a corrupt salary regime, adding that the state civil service is suffering from fraudulent practices and corruption.

He stated that as of 2015, both the state and local government wage bills were N4.5 billion, adding that the figure has risen to nearly N7 billion in 2020 even though no employment of new workers has taken place.

According to Governor Mohammed, the problem with the state nominal payroll seems more challenging than envisaged.

“What appeared to be a first simple issue of sanitizing the nominal payroll and sorting out the arithmetics suddenly turned out to be a problem and seemed to defy all nominal formulas that will bring a solution. The problem is much more challenging than I envisaged.

“In the year 2015, the salary bill of Bauchi State, both state and local government, was N4.5 billion. As I address you today, we are nearing N7 billion.