The Bauchi State Civil Service Commission has terminated the appointment of the Chief Secretarial Assistant attached to the State Pension Board, Ibrahim Garba over alleged “serious misconduct of salary and pension scam”.
The commission, which revealed this in a recent statement by the Information Officer, Mr Saleh Umar, stated that a disciplinary committee of the State Pension Board found Garba guilty of swapping the account number of one Audu Mohammed, now deceased, with his own.
This facilitated the change of pay point after the relatives of the deceased reported his death.
Thereafter, Garba received an illegal pension for 55 months of N54,871 for four years and seven months which amounted to over N3 million.
The commission alleged that Garba’s action violated the Public Service Rule (PSR) 0327(XI) which deals with the issues of financial embezzlement.
Umar further explained that the chairman of the commission, Abubakar Usman, has called on workers in the state to be God-fearing in the discharge of their duties.
Usman said the public service rule must be observed and adhered to.
The chairman told civil servants in the state that no worker will be victimised for nothing, adding that the commission would not fold its hands while bad eggs sabotage the service.
He assured that the embezzled amount will be recovered from Garba’s benefits.
