COMMITTEE set up by the Ondo State government to look into the alleged overbloated staff of local governments across the state have discovered about 10, 000 ghost workers in the 18 councils.
The committee, led by the former Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Deji Falae, came into being, following the discovery that many of the councils could not pay the salary of their members of staff.
It was learnt that the state governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, set up the committee after it was discovered that about N500 million of the fund of the state government was being used to augment salary of the local government councils.
Sources informed that many of the chairmen of the affected councils had, in the past, loaded their wage bills and backdated appointments of workers to 2008.
The problem, however, became obvious, when the councils went back to the days of zero allocation to their local governments, as many of them found it difficult to pay staff salary, particularly after the implementation of the new minimum wage.
The committee was also said to have discovered that many of the appointments were irregular, as the beneficiaries in many cases were not given letter of appointments, while some of the letters given out were handwritten and without proper documentation at the council.
Meanwhile, the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Chief Olusola Oke, has condemned alleged sack of over 17,000 staff of the local government councils by the state government.
Oke alleged that the retrenchment of “709 in Ilaje, 800 in Odigbo, 550 in Akoko South-West local governments, among others, coming on the heels of the sack of 96 staff of the state university and 43 of the state polytechnic, is an unfriendly act and a testament of the state government’s wickedness, insensitivity and needless terrorism on the workers of the state.”
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