The Kebbi State Government has uncovered six thousand ghost workers and saved about two hundred million naira since the introduction of e-payment in October last year.

The State Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Bello Tugga, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi that government had achieved ninety five per cent success in the bio-metrix system of e-payment of salary to its workers.

He said a committee, with members from all segments of the civil service, had been set up to verify anomalies in the payment of workers salary.

Alhaji Tugga said government had no intention of punishing anybody for the discovery of the ghost workers, stressing that the measure was purely aimed at sanitising its accounting system.

He appealed to the state chapter of the NLC to enlighten its members on the ongoing verification exercise.