Reverting to Manual Salary Payment Fraudulent, Yari Tells Zamfara Gov

The immediate former Governor of Zamfara State, Anduallziz Yari, has advised his successor Governor Mohammed Bello Matawalle to stop chasing shadows and concentrates on how to impact the state with meaningful development.

Yari urged the state governor to retain the e-payment salary system that was introduced by his (Yari) administration rather than reverting to manual payment that is susceptible to fraud and manipulations.

The former state governor also advised his successor to jettison the building of a new government house at the cost of N7 billion, which should not be a priority to a state that could barely afford to pay N30,000 minimum wage.

In statement made available to THISDAY by Yari’s Media Aide, Mayowa Oluwabiyi, the former governor of the state cited the instance where a deputy governor of the state was treated as a ghost worker as one of the main negative challenges of reverting to manual system of paying salaries.

Yari stated that recent attempts to disparage his achievements, such as the e-payment of workers’ salaries, have made it imperative for him to speak out.

According to him, “it is now impossible to shortchange the Zamfara people through the wicked ghost worker scheme. All such attempts, like the one they are now struggling to explain, will continue to fall like a pack of cards.”

The former governor also dispelled reports of how a relation of former Commissioner of Finance, Shehu Idris, was part of the cartel that misappropriated public fund whereas no such relation existed in real life. “These lies have attracted litigation for defamation where they will have to prove the authenticity or otherwise of their claims.