For failing to show up for the screening it recently conducted for civil servants, Ondo State Government has removed names of 51 workers from its payroll.
Government said it conducted the exercise to enable it know the number of real civil servants in the local government service.
The state Head of Service, Mr. Dare Aragbaiye, confirmed this in Akure on Monday at the celebration of the 2019 Public Service Week anniversary.
The anniversary held withj the theme: ‘ICT and innovative governance: Panacea for youth unemployment and migration.’
Aragbaiye explained that the 51 workers failed to show up for the screening and since then, have not returned to work.
His words: “Since they did not show up for the screening, that means they are ghost workers and for that reason, their salaries have been stopped and their names have been removed from the government’s payroll.
“Even if they show up today, they have some questions to answer.”
