The Committe set up by the Bauchi state governor Bala Mohammed to verify the state workers and pensioners without Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) has pledged to fair and just to all those affected in the course of its assignment.
Chairman of the committe Adamu Gumba made the pledge Monday while briefing newsmen on the commencement of the verification exercise.
Recall that over 41, 000 workers in the state were earmarked for verification due to alleged non submission of their Bank Verification Numbers to government even as their October salaries have been withheld as a result of the development.
Gumba emphasised that the verification was not meant to victimize the workers or inflict hardship on them but to fish out ghost workers on government’s payroll.
According to him, the exercise will last for just two weeks assuring that a worker will be paid his salary immediately he is verified to be a bonafide civil servant.
Gumba said the committe has co-opted experts in accounting and civil service to help them discharge their duties diligently.
He promised that the exercise will be once and for all, appealing to genuine workers whose salaries were withheld following the verification to exercise patience assuring that they would be paid immediately after the exercise.
” Once you are verified as a bonafide civil servant, you will be paid. This government never intended to witch-hunt anyone. But the exercise is meant to rid the state of ghost workers”. He said.
