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Facts are emerging from the on going verification of the
Niger State workforce on how government paid top
government functionaries double salary and the way salary
of junior officials are inflated to divert government fund. A
messenger at the Ministry of Finance earns N265,000
monthly while a cleaner at General Hospital Minna earns
N375,000 monthly.
It was learnt from sources close to the verification firm,
Sally Tibbot Consultants that no fewer than three
permanent secretaries in Niger State civil service earned
over N1.3 million monthly.
It was revealed that ordinarily the salary of a permanent
secretary should be between N400,000 and N500, 000 but
the said permanent secretaries because of their
professional background earn another salaries as
consultants to another government agency bringing their
monthly earnings to N1.3 million.
The source revealed that “ the irony is that some of the
said permanent secretaries were members of the
committee set up by the government to guide the
consultants in the ongoing verification exercise.”
Similarly investigation also revealed that a messenger
earns N265,000 in Ministry of Finance and a cleaner also
earns N375,000 in General Hospital Minna whereas they
are supposed to earn less than N30,000 each monthly.
In the same vein at the Veterinary Department in the
Ministry of Agriculture a man who took cows for grazing
earns accelerated salary scale of N375,000 while originally
his salary is only N23,000 monthly.
It was gathered that when the junior staff were confronted
they denied collecting the said money rather it was
discovered that their names were being used by top
government officials to divert the said amount even as
they collect their actual salary at the end of the month.
Consequently a ring of top officials who ran the scam with
the names of the junior officials were being unveiled by the
consultants and it has started sending fears to some
officials in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)
in Niger State who are now running for cover.
The leader of the consultancy firm (Sally Tibbot
Consultant) conducting the verification exercise Sa’adatu
Bakrin-Ottun Sally in an interview confirmed that the
Permanent Secretaries earned salaries from their
profession as well as their present status.