Mr Musa Kaibo, head of service (HOS), Adamawa State, has revealed that the names of some deceased employees and some retirees of the state government were found listed in the monthly salary vouchers for payments.
In a chat with journalists, yesterday in Yola, Kaibo said this abnormality was found at the Adamawa State Post-primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB).
This was found out after an investigation by a committee probed the circumstances surrounding the non-payment of some newly recruited teachers in the state.
“The government is shocked by this discovery at the Board, and had to mandate the committee to expand its probe to other ministries and departments,” he said.
Kaibo added that four employees, two each in the e-payment office of the accountant-general and the PPSMB, had been suspended for their alleged involvement in the suspected fraud.
Also confirming the development, the commissioner for finance, Alhaji Ibrahim Buba, said the account of the 181 officials of the Board had been blocked, as a result of which government saved N8.8million from the salaries of PPSMB employees in March.