A verification panel set up by the Bauchi State Government to verify the authenticity of the workers Bank Verification Number (BVN) has discovered 596 deceased workers on the payroll of the government. While briefing the press on Monday, the Chairman of the Panel, Sen. Adamu Gumba, said “in the process of this exercise, we discovered that 596 deceased officers are on the government payroll. “However, we have immediately recommended to the state government that their names should be removed from pension and the state payroll. Gumba also said that the committee discovered that 30,276 state workers were suspected to be without BVN contrary to the initial figure of 41,448 suspected by the state government before the committee was set up. He revealed that out of the 30,276 people, the committee has verified and cleared 24,736 during the verification exercise.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2020 13:18 UTC