Kaduna State Government said it would stop the salaries of 16,000 workers who were not biometrically captured in the monthly payroll.
The State Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Suleiman Audu Kwari, said in Kaduna Monday that it was part of the resolution of the State Executive Council meeting.
He explained that the 16, 000 workers were yet to furnish the state with neither Personal Sub head Number (PSN) nor Biometric Verification Number (BVN) as required, following series of verifications to rid the state of ghost workers and authenticate the monthly wage bill.
He emphasised that the state government would only pay salaries of staff biometrically verified, who have their PSN and BVN.
He maintained that only MDAs that comply with the directive would receive salary hence forth.
“From all available records, we are unable to get these people to come and verify their names and positions. The names would be published on the national dailies for them to come and justify why their names should go back to the payroll”, he emphasised.
He said those with satisfactory credentials would be retained on the payroll.
The commissioner said this became imperative because “what the state gets now from the Federation Allocation Committee (FAC), is barely enough to offset its monthly wage bill.”
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