Kano State Government has discovered fresh rot in its civil service, with 240 workers receiving double salaries from the payroll.
Before the recent revelation, the government had disclosed 247 ghost workers on the state local government payroll who were either retired or dead.
Briefing journalists on the ongoing verification and validation exercise of the state payroll system, Chairman of the state payroll, Auwal Sanda, revealed that 217 staff were uncovered using the same bank verification number on payroll.
Besides, Sanda disclosed that 1,335 workers whose names appeared on the payroll have refused to report for verification.
He reminded that while the committee was not in a hurry to declare them as ghost workers, the affected persons would still be given the opportunity to appear for the bio data capturing and verification to clear their names.
The chairman of the payroll verification committee, Umaru Idi, stressed that 679 staff whose names appear on the payroll have failed to appear for bio-data verification.
Meanwhile, Secretary to the State Government, Umar Ibrahim Faruq, expressed concern over the number of civil servants indebted to private loan vendors.
According to the SSG, the government disburses over N19 billion monthly to service loans owed by 21,000 workers, predominantly teachers in public schools.
While lamenting the negative implication of the heavy loans to general productivity, the SSG cited a situation where a teacher who earns N132, 000 monthly ended up receiving N500 at the end of the month due to loan indemnity.
He affirmed the level of rut in the state and local government payroll as a clear element of corruption, adding that the government will go the extra mile to serve maximum disciplinary action on anyone culpable.