The Committee set up by Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, to verify the state workers without Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) has pledged that they are not going to witch-hunt any civil servant in the course of their assignment.
Chairman of the committee, Adamu Gumba, made the pledge on 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.
But the verification committee chairman asserted 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 committee 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.
