Sally Tibbot Limited had alleged that the Osun state government is harbouring and covering 8,452 ghost workers in its employment.
The consultant disclosed this during a press conference on Friday.
The workers across various agencies decried the defamation and character assassination allegedly perpetrated by the consultant, who declared them to be ghost workers, vowing to seek redress in the court of law.
Reacting to the allegation, the Osun State Government stated that public servants who were declared ghost workers by Sally Tibbot Limited have resolved to drag the company and the lead consultant to court for tarnishing and defaming their careers spanning several decades.
This is contained in a statement by the state Commissioner for Information, Kolapo Alimi, on Saturday, who noted that the workers were furious that the company was still referring to them as ghost workers after they had shown up for verification and had been duly captured.
The statement reads in part: “It is also on record that the consultant declared the state governor, the deputy governor, the Secretary to the state government, and more than two-thirds of political appointees in the state as ghost workers.
“The workers blamed the consultant for messing up the staff audit by her maltreatment of workers and her inhuman treatment of many top civil servants, as well as her refusal to decentralise the auditing exercise, accusing her of coming for the contract with an ulterior motive to defraud the state and tarnish the image of the state government.
“The workers affected included the Vice Chancellor of the Osun State University, staff of polytechnics, several top professors, Deans, and provosts, among others. More than ten agencies alongside several tertiary institutions were not covered, and workers in those agencies were declared ghost workers”.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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