Rivers payroll cleanup: Where are the people behind the ghost workers?

By ABRAHAM EBINIThe Governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi Fubara, has recently and quite resolutely defended his administration’s approval and ongoing implementation of a comprehensive staff payroll verification exercise across the twenty-three (23) local government areas of the state. Speaking at the commissioning of the Omademe Internal Roads Project in Ikwerre Local Government Area, the Governor, drawing from his professional pedigree as a former Treasury Officer, insisted that the clea