The Seriake Dickson-led Bayelsa government has announced that the ongoing public service reforms has reduced its workforce from 55,000 to 27,000, exposing a total of 28,000 ghost workers from its payroll.
The Bayelsa Commissioner for Information, Mr Daniel Iworiso-Markson, made the revelation in a statement on Saturday in the state capital.
Iworiso-Markson was reacting to criticism by the Bayelsa chapter of All Progressives Congress to the job losses occasioned by the management of the reforms.
He threw jibes at the All Progressive Congress for criticising the reforms, adding that the aim was to deal with payroll fraud and not to sack workers.
It would be recalled that an APC member of the Bayelsa House of Assembly, representing Brass 1 Constituency, Mr Israel Soni-Goli while receiving two members of the PDP led government noted that the government was not managing the reforms properly.
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