Names of dead staff, retirees uncovered on payroll after verification exercise in Kogi ‎

Names of dead staff members and retirees were discovered on the monthly payroll of the judiciary and Judicial Service Commission during the recent Judiciary Staff Verification Exercise in Kogi State.

Chairman of the Special ‎Committee on Judiciary Staff Verification Exercise, Ibrahim Alhassan, disclosed this while submitting the report to the acting Chief Judge of Kogi State, Justice Henry Olusiyi, at the Kogi State High Court.

Alhassan blamed the administrative department in the state judicial commission for improper documentation of staff records. According to him, a lot of fraud was revealed by the verification exercise. ‎

He specifically noted that lapses were discovered in the Personnel Department on improper documentation of staff information and job description within the terms of reference, which he said contributed to a lot of administrative lapses in the system.

On the outcome of the report, the committee chairman noted the discovery of some retired and deceased staff whose names were still on the payroll.

He lamented that some top officials of the judiciary and the Judicial Service Commission, who had since taken their oath of office and assumed office, did not have clear records of the employment in the administrative department.

According to him, the fate of numerous staff who obtained employment through the back door hangs in the balance as they await the report of the committee, which came in two volumes.

The committee chairman stressed that aside from the exercise taking place at the headquarters, the committee also visited 39 directorates to carry out the verification exercis‎e.