Dead Persons Receive Salaries In Rivers …Shocking Facts From Biometrics …RSG Plans Forensic Audit

It’s now known that dead and retired civil servants are among those fished out in the ongoing biometrics by the Rivers State Government for civil servants in the state.
This was revealed by the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike while playing host to the state branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), yesterday in Government House, Port Harcourt.
Apart from the governor’s revelation, The Tide investigations also reveal that active civil servants have equally been indicted.
They include top civil servants of the Permanent Secretary and director cadre.
An inside source in the ICT Department handling the exercise informed The Tide that huge number of civil servants had been caught especially those taking salaries from two to three Ministries.
The source said, “We have a lot of files we have kept for investigations and the only soft landing we give them is for them to go and pay the backlog of salaries they have been earning from those ministries.
Though the actual number of those caught are yet to be determined since the exercise is still ongoing,  The Tide was reliably informed that many civil servants affected will be dismissed from service.
“It’s pure fraud,” the source said, “ that is why we tell many of those we caught to go and pay back or face expulsion”.
Wike said such civil servants will face prosecution when once the exercise is concluded.
Already, the names of those caught had been forwarded to the governor, according to the insider.
But, yesterday, while hosting medical doctors, the governor was visibly angry over the bloated salary voucher, “you see people are staying in one place making money. In UST, we heard of retired professors who are still on payroll.”
It’s against this backdrop, that the governor hinted that once the biometric exercise is concluded, a fresh forensic audit will be carried out to determine genuine civil servants.
Wike disclosed that already the biometric has reduced the state wage bill by over N2billion.
“From N6.6billion, we are now having N4billion. This is very surprising. And we will do forensic after now.”