Chairman of the committee, Senator Adamu Gumba, who stated this Monday, while briefing newsmen m, said the committee had recommended to the state government to pay the cleared persons their outstanding October salaries.
According to him, 14,623 more staff would be verified by the committee before next week, adding that 9, 889 pensioners that were found not to have the Bank Verification Numbers would also be screened.
He emphasized that the exercise was not meant to witch-hunt any worker or pensioner but to fish out ghost workers and fake pensioners.
He apologized to the genuine workers subjected to hardship due to non payment of their salaries during the verification exercise, assuring that all bonafide civil servants cleared would be paid immediately.
