The just concluded
biometric exercise in the Rivers State has been adjudged to be one of the best approaches to tackle ghost workers syndrome by the state government.
A civil servant who pleaded anonymity, said the exercise had uncovered many areas which some top officials were using to siphon public funds.
The source regretted that some people in the state were receiving salaries from two different ministries.
She said others also bloated their promotion to land them in higher levels other than their original grade levels.
According to her, such privileges ought to cease in a bid for the government to transform the state for better.
On the issue of non-payment of salaries as claimed in some quarters, she said such was not true, saying that those yet to be paid were likely those that avoided the data/biometric exercise.
She maintained that the idea was an excellent one and should be an annual event as to enable the government flush out bad eggs  from the system.
Explaining why the exercise was taking longer time, she pointed out that the consultant in-charge was putting things together to ensure that the best result was given to the state.
While calling on civil servants to be dedicated to their duties, he urged them to see the biometric as a clear move to sanitise the system by the present administration.
The Tide gathered that the biometric exercise has so far, saved millions of naira for the state