No fewer than 51 workers have been sacked by the Ondo State government over their failure to participate in the recently conducted screening for the civil servants in the state.
The state Head of Service, Dare Aragbaiye said that the affected workers’ names have been removed from its payroll.
The government said the screening was conducted to enable it know the number of real civil servants in the local government service.
Aragbaiye, confirmed this in Akure on Monday at the celebration of 2019 Public Service Week anniversary.
The theme of the anniversary is, ‘ICT and innovative governance: Panacea for youth unemployment and migration.’
Aragbaiye explained that the 51 workers failed to showed up for the screening exercise and since then, they have not returned to work.
He said, “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.”
