169 ghost doctors on payroll in Zamfara – Mattawalle

Bello Mohammed Matawalle, the Zamfara State Governor has decried the rising cases of about 169 ghost doctors who are on payroll, receiving salaries and allowances.

The Governor disclosed this to newsmen in his town in Maradun, Maradun Local Government Area of the State.

Mattawalle said the ghost doctors have been causing the delay in the payment of the health workers’ salaries and allowances.

According to him, his government had been having series of meetings with the Labour leaders in the State with regard to flushing out ghost doctors and nurses in the health sector, while assuring that his administration had no plan to retrench any genuine civil servant in the State following the implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage.

The Governor, while addressing the newsmen said, series of meetings have been going on between his government and the Labour leaders on productivity, adding that he expects the civil servants in the State to always justify their salaries and allowances.

“I was once a civil servant and I know the pains if my salary and allowances were not paid”, he added.

He further stated that huge amount of resources were being paid in the name of salaries and allowances to the civil servants out of the little monthly allocation to the State from the federation account.