
The Anambra government fires six directors and finds 210 fake workers.
The move is a part of the commission’s “quest to enthrone professionalism and eradicate all forms of corruption in the council system,” according to the Anambra State Local Government Service Commission.

Six deputy directors were fired by the Anambra State Local Government Service Commission for having forged certifications.
The Vanguard newspaper stated that the panel also found 210 alleged phantom workers in the system, according to Vincent Ezeaka, the committee’s chairperson.
The impacted deputy directors, according to Mr. Ezeaka, graduated from Imo State University. He also stated that further answers from Nigerian colleges were anticipated by the commission’s investigators.
The move is a component of the commission’s effort to bring professionalism to the council system and get rid of corruption in all its manifestations.
“We have eliminated the ghost workers from the employees’ payroll, who were employed throughout the state’s 21 local government districts,” he said.
The chairwoman stated that the implementation of staff biometric identification and verification utilizing a cutting-edge clock-in-clock-out digital attendance record, along with a focused back-to-back personnel audit, made the findings feasible.
He said that certificate screening had turned into an ongoing process and that the revelation highlighted the size of the physical personnel in the Anambra State Unified Local Government System.
According to Mr. Ezeaka, certificate screening for employees from Grade Level 14 and lower will start in earnest after the screening of public servants from Grade Levels 15 and 16 is finished.
The exercise’s goal, according to the chairwoman, was to “flush out fraudsters and all forms of certificate racketeering” from the local government structure.
He said that there had been “mismanagement of local government funds and unrestrained looting.”
But he said that since all local government accounts were connected to a specific monitoring system and were constantly watched over by security organizations in order to recover embezzled money and bring guilty personnel to justice, the matter had already been resolved.