State loses 130 active civil servants to death in July, worries about pension

The Jigawa government claimed it lost 130 active civil servants in July alone. That doesn’t call for sympathy.

Executive Chairman, state and local government contributory pension scheme board, Hashim Adamu Fagam who disclosed this while paying N299m as benefits of the deceased persons to their families would rather make a show of it.

He said those who died were from the state, local Government and local education authority.

Fagam explained that 46 workers died in the state civil service, 39 died in the local government civil service while 45 died in the local government education authority.

This mass exit raises suspicion of ghost workers and overdue old civil servants.

Fagam added that the scheme had also paid N872,790,715.50 as benefits to 534 retired Civil servants for the month of July.

“A total of #1,222,672,029.59 was paid to 725 beneficiaries as retirement benefit, death benefit, death pension balance, refund of 8% contribution for the month of July,” he said.

The local government systems allow redundancy because the states have yet to accept the autonomy of a local government.

Niger weeded out over 11000 in its civil service recently.