Imo adopts BVN for salary payments

In a renewed bid to arrest the issue of ghost workers and pensioners,
Imo State Government says it would henceforth pay salaries and
pensions to beneficiaries, using their Bank Verification Numbers, BVN.

The Secretary to the Government of Imo State, SGI, Sir George Eche,
disclosed this yesterday, while speaking with newsmen in Owerri.

"It was for this purpose that the state government commenced the
verification of civil servants with their BVN attached", the SGI
explained.

While expressing optimism that once the government was through with
the exercise, salaries would be linked to the worker's BVN, Sir Eche
argued that with this development, the ghost workers syndrome would be
a thing of the past.