Haruna Abubakar Abdulkadir Presenting the Report to Gov. Agbu Kefas


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This is the full speech of the Taraba State Staff Verification committee headed by Haruna Abubakar Abdulkadir on Tuesday.

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“Some civil servants demonstrated, alleging that they were not paid salaries (and they have submitted a list of 4,029 to you that they were the genuine civil servants working for Taraba State but they were not paid and that they were deprived of being paid despite serving the state genuinely.”
“However sir, the list was submitted to the committee to verify and the committee keenly looked into the list and verified and below are the findings of the committee. “
“The total number of 4,029 were submitted and the committee discovered that out of the 4,029, 449 were already cleared and passed to the agency's office for payment but they refused to pay, claiming that the committee just cleared people that they know which is not correct.”

“All the people we've cleared, we use our base to clear them. Anybody that hasn't been cleared means he has no approval from you to be engaged or to be paroled. After all, nobody has the right sir to get into the pay roll without your approval.”
“Nobody has the right to employ or pay roll anybody without your approval and paroling has processes. If you are employed, you have to report to your place of work. After reporting, then VO must be raised based on the date of resumption and by the time you resume, VO is raised and passed to the office of head of service”.
“The head of service will now direct the agency's office to pay but in this circumstance, people are just paroled into the parole of the state civil service without even knowing where they are working”.
“98% of people they are claiming have no place of work. They have no place of work because we went to the post-primary school where they have a chunk of people working or claiming not to have been paid.
 No file sir. Nobody has a file there. Nobody has a file. Only nine files. Out of the nine files, five of them are irregular, incorrect transfer of service and four of them were cleared. The remaining 1,900 or something were not civil servants and they are not working anywhere.”

“The remaining balance sir, the next place is primary health care development agency where we have about 1,000 of them there. We went there, all of them has no file and those that have file were just concocted. They are not working anywhere and there are no health workers so out of the 4,029, 4,949 were cleared. 3,569 were not cleared because they have no approval from you to engage them or parole them into the civil service. And in the list we have also 11 judges claim to have not been paid, high court judges and the state government doesn't pay high court judges. In our previous report sir, we have also a chunk of high court judges that have retired and also are in the payroll”.
“I followed it keenly to where they have been paid and met the bank manager. We discussed behind closed doors. I reported appropriately sir. All these things, actions must be taken to correct it or else time shall come the state government cannot longer pay salary at all”. 
From the list submitted only 4,029 but we have over 7,000 of them sir. This is the list of the people that are only placed into the payroll without your approval sir. There are 7,800 not 4,000 that just submitted. So in view of this sir, we have cleared about 1,410. A total of 22,869 were cleared out of which 1,410 were not paid”.

“If these people are paid, the complaint will have been reduced to at least 2 million because these are genuine civil servants that get approval for their employment and we've cleared them based on the basis we used. And there are also areas that you get approval to employ for instance college of education, college of agric and polytechnic but they employ far above the number approved by you. For instance, the college of education is given approval to employ 50 but employed over 1,000 of them and they have a total staff enrollment of less than 1,000 and over 1,000 were employed to add to the total number of our 750 already working in that college”.
“What is the rationale? So also in the area of college of agriculture and science and technology you get approval for them to employ 300 only. They employ 300 and employ additional 684 in addition to the number you approved. College of polytechnic you gave the approval to employ 14, they employed 30 additional”. 
“All these are additional numbers so that's why we have a total of about 7,800 not cleared and the people whom we didn't clear are not civil servants because 98% of them if you go to the ministry you can't get their file. They are not working anywhere, they are just sleeping in their houses collecting salary, that's all. And most of them are not qualified”.
“The concocted file brought to us by the Primary school Management Board discovered that some people among them finished their primary school in 2025. Sir, they finished their primary school in 2025. If you finish your primary school 2025 and you are employed to teach, you are supposed to be also and you are not employed to teach by 2025 you have finished your primary school”.
“Sir, there are so many things in the payroll. For instance, as at November 2024 we have outstanding people of unclear people about 2,557. But when we got further to collect payroll for May, June, July of 2025 we discovered that about 4,800 were added. That's why we insisted they give us the payroll for August, September and October. They refused”.
 *Sir, in October so many people were overpaid. Some were paid 1 million and above in October 2025 salary. That's why we insisted that they give us the payroll to investigate but they refused. This is the summary of the report. So we are recommending that the 1,410 cleared be paid, sir”.
“And the salary of people who have cleared be automated as you approved during our last meeting, sir. My submission”.