Speaker of the house of representatives Yakubu Dogara has been accused of lying to Nigerians by making allegations that the Bauchi state Governor Mohammed Abubakar has stolen public funds to the tune of N400 billion through engagement of ghost workers in the payroll of workers in the Bauchi state Civil Service.
The accusation was made by the Acting Director General of Governor Mohammed Abubakar’s 2019 campaign Organization Honourable Aminu Mohammed Danmaliki in a press statement issued to Journalists yesterday in Bauchi.
According to him, the then Bauchi state government has placed an embargo since 2013 on staff employment by the administration of former Governor Isa Yuguda which is still in force.
” No fresh appointment is made by the current government of M. A Abubakar till date. The question of employment of 1, 200 staff was false and malicious”. He said.
He however admitted that there were over 1, 000 teachers recruited by the former administration ‘who were not placed on pay roll until the present administration came into being’.
He revealed that Abubakar inherited a workforce of 105, 000 civil servants for both state and local governments as well as pensioners whose total monthly salaries had been within the range of N5.1 billion to N5.2 billion.
” By simple arithmetic, in the years of the present administration, the entire salaries stood at N5.2 billion monthly for 42 months making a total of N218, 400, 000, 000.00 billion. Where did the speaker sourced the sum of N400 billion alleged to have been paid to workers within the same period”. He queried.
