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The executive chairman of Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo State, Hon Sylvester Okoro has said the council has been able to recover over five hundred thousand naira monthly from ghost workers in the council.
He stated this while charting with journalists at council headquarter in Abudu on the recent development, which led to the unmasking of about five workers who has been receiving salaries for nothing.
Mr. Okoro explained that, the council carried out thorough investigation through a committee and discovered that they were some ghost workers in the system and subsequently stopped their salaries which had in turn, boost the council's revenue.
"Coming on board as a council chairman, i meet huge debt on ground, over fifteen months salaries unpaid but the story has changed today. Thank God for Gov Godwin Obaseki who believed in sanitizing the system for proper administrative activities. When we discover this ghost workers issue we set up a committee, after the committee had finished their work. I set up another one for the same thing, it was then we discover that some persons are just collecting money for free. So we decided to pay with cheque and behold, weird some cheque amounting to over five hundred naira uncollected, it was then we knew all these issue.
"Quickly, informed the Gov. and he directed me to stop their salary immediately and today the story has change, okey imagine if i keep saving five hundred thousand naira, will that one not help me in executing some good project"
Mr. Okoro said the council, under his watch was determined to bring sanity into the system and discouraged any form of laxity at work.
He however promised to pay workers salaries as and when due even as his administration was poised to train and retrain staff for better service delivery.
He advised the council staff to ensure they report to work early for harmonious working relationship with the staff and himself.
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