{"id":7933,"date":"2013-08-08T02:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T02:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/fraud-makes-bayelsa-wage-bill-burdensome-dickson\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T02:40:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T02:40:03","slug":"fraud-makes-bayelsa-wage-bill-burdensome-dickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/fraud-makes-bayelsa-wage-bill-burdensome-dickson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud makes Bayelsa wage bill burdensome \u2013Dickson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, yesterday bemoaned the huge wage bill of civil servants in the employ of the state government.<\/p>\n

Dickson regretted that the wage bill his administration was battling to reduce was still fraught with fraud.<\/p>\n

According to him, some employees still collect salaries from two pay points.<\/p>\n

The governor, who spoke at the 15th edition of his monthly transparency press briefing, disclosed that civil servants who were due for retirement were still collecting salaries, a situation which he described as very disturbing.<\/p>\n

Dickson was reacting to allegation by a journalist that some civil servants in the state Ministry of Transport were collecting double monthly salaries.<\/p>\n

The allegation created a shock wave in the Banquet Hall of the Government House, venue of the briefing.<\/p>\n

The Commissioner for Transport, Mrs. Marie Ebikaki, who appeared ruffled about the stunning allegation, however, claimed to have a clean record in the ministry\u2019s salary voucher.<\/p>\n

The Deputy Governor, John Jonah, who gave details of allocation and expenditure for July, said the government received N17.96 billion as allocation for the month.<\/p>\n

Jonah said civil servants\u2019 salary for July was N3.96 billion, the state\u2019s Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, was N658.39 million while total savings in the bank was N19.96 billion.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the state government yesterday signed business agreement with three foreign firms to build two fish farms and an international golf course in Yenagoa.<\/p>\n

The projects are expected to be completed within 12 months.<\/p>\n

Dickson disclosed that the fish farms would cost $ 10.5 and $ 24.6m respectively, while the golf course would gulp $ 17 million.<\/p>\n

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