Bayelsa LGs’ verification uncovers fraud, 60 underaged workers Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson The chairmen of verification committees set up by the Bayelsa State Government to verify staff and wage bills of the state’s eight local government areas have alleged massive fraud in their reports. The reports, submitted to the state Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral John Jonah (retd.), during the Monthly Transparency Briefing, alleged salary payments to dead workers, employment of minors, unqualified workers, and truancy in the local government system. The reports, presented by Chief Thompson Okorotie (Ekeremor); Senator Nimi Barigha-Amange (Nembe); Senator Inatimi Rufus-Spiff (Brass), and Chief Patrick Isulu, among others, exposed poorly administered and corruption-infested LGAs in the state. Okorotie said out of the 1,777 employees of Ekeremor screened, 352 employees were discovered to be minors between the ages of one and six years. He said the verific
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