No fewer than 50 civil servants under the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) have appealed to the FCT Civil Service Commission for the immediate payment of their April salaries, after they were mistakenly delisted and tagged as “ghost workers.”;;
The affected workers, some of whom serve in the medical department and other critical units, were among 230 staff whose names were omitted from the payroll in April during a recent exercise aimed at sanitising the civil service system.
In protest, members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) and other affiliated unions launched a warning strike shortly after the discovery.
This move prompted the FCTA to reinstate many of the affected personnel and released their April salaries.
However, about 50 civil servants remain unpaid due to what was described as “technical hitches”;; in the payroll system.
Chairman of the FCT Civil Service Commission, Chief Emeka Ezeh, had last week apologised for the error and assured that the issue would be resolved swiftly.
“We were trying to clean up the payroll and in the process, some genuine staff were mistakenly affected,”;; Ezeh admitted.
“I sincerely apologise for the inconvenience. The affected salaries will be released between now and Friday.”;;
Despite this assurance, the civil servants say they are yet to receive any payment or further update as of Wednesday, May 14.
The workers are calling on the Commission to expedite the resolution, warning that continued silence could escalate tensions among staff who are already financially strained.
As of press time, there was no fresh response from the FCT Civil Service Commission regarding the pending payments.
