Cross River Moves To Purge Ghost Workers After Validating 52,330 Staff, Pensioners

The Cross River Government has moved to purge ghost workers from its payroll after validating 52,330 out of 61,167 registered workers and pensioners in its ongoing personnel audit.




The State Head of Service, Mr. Orok Okon, disclosed this yesterday while reacting on the issue during a telephone conversation.

He said that the state has about 41,000 civil servants with local government staff, while more than 20,000 are pensioners. He stressed that a meeting of the State-Wide Personnel Audit Verification Committee was recently concluded to review progress and address challenges affecting the exercise, as part of efforts to clean up the payroll.

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