THE Ekiti State government has said it will retrieve all excess money received as salary by some of the workers in the state, adding that such workers might face prosecution.
As a prelude to this, the state governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, has set up a committee to review the outcome of a recent verification of workers on the state government’s payroll.
The verification, the government said, would help it fish out those being overpaid among others.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Idowu Adelusi, on Sunday, said “such indicted public servants are to refund the excess funds and may be prosecuted as well.”
Adelusi said the committee, to be headed by the deputy governor, Dr Kolapo Olusola, “is also to compile the list of dead workers still on payroll, those not due for study leave but were granted and still being paid, those who absconded from their duty posts, among others.”
The committee, the statement added, also has as members Secretary to the State Government, the Attorney General, the Commissioner for Finance, the Head of Service, the Accountant-General, the Auditor General and the Director in the Ministry of Budget.
The governor also directed that the 30 ad hoc staff of the firm that installed the payroll system for the state but who were converted to staff of the government be disengaged.
Among the anomalies discovered during the verification exercise were multiple salary payments, gaps in administrative oversight and duplicate in account numbers.
Others were one account number being shared by two members of staff which involved about 200 workers, irregular classification of pay groups, overpayment to micro-finance banks, among others.
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