Femi Adi/ Kaduna

The Kaduna State Government, headed by Governor Nasir El-Rufai, has announced the commencement of biometric verification of all civil servants in its employment from Wednesday 24 June 2015.

The Head of Service, Mrs Alisabatu Dada Onazi, announced the exercise in a statement. She said it is designed to provide the government with accurate and reliable record of its personnel and clean-up its payroll.

According to the circular , data collected from the exercise will enable the government to determine whether the billions of naira spent monthly on staff salaries are paid to identifiable and verifiable civil servants or not.

The biometric registration exercise will be conducted simultaneously across the three zones, will take place in Kaduna, Kafanchan and Zaria.

While specifying the order in which the personnel from each ministry are expected to appear for the exercise, civil servants are advised to bring their letter of appointment, letter of last promotion and means of identification, which should be any of the following: national identity card, driver’s license, permanent voter’s card or international passport.

However, the Head of Service in the circular directed all civil servants to physically appear before the verification team for screening and collection of their salary cheques for the month of June 2015.

Last week, the Kaduna State Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with United Bank for Africa and Zenith Bank to partner in updating the civil service payroll.

The biometric verification would be completed on Wednesday 8 July 2015.