Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara on Wednesday said the
government would sack 7,000 workers as recommended by the Workers Verification
Committee set up by the government.

The committee in July submitted an interim report which
stated that only 21,067 out the 28,183 workers on the government’s payroll were
verified.

The report added that more than half of the workers in
Zamfara State Government House were genuine.

The report generated a controversy when the governor’s
directed that only those duly verified should be paid the August salary
although the final report had not been submitted to the government.

Yari, said when he paid a Sallah homage on the Emir of
Birmin Magaji, Alhaji Ahmad Umar, on Wednesday that he would implement the
report by sacking all ‘redundant‘ and ‘ghost‘ workers.

He, however, promised better conditions of service for
genuine workers.

“Our idea of verifying the workforce is not intended to sack
workers but let nobody be in doubt of the government’s resolve to delete from
our payroll all those workers who are discovered as redundant or ghost.

“There is no justification for any government to allow
married women and children who never knew the way to any office to continue to
collect salaries for doing nothing,“ he said.

Yari said the verification was aimed at sanitising the civil
service by ensuring that only genuine workers were receiving salaries from the
government.

He said that from the verification report, it was discovered
that out of 11,000, only 3,000 teachers were qualified to teach in primary
schools.

The governor also said that his administration would look
into requests for road construction, and provision of potable water in
communities in the next phase of his development programme.

He called on the people of the state to continue to pray for
peace and unity for the country to ensure development.