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A committee set up by the Bauchi State Government yesterday said that it had discovered 20 dead pensioners, who are still on the government’s payroll.

Secretary of the committee set up to verify workers and pensioners without Bank Verification Numbers (BVN), Alhaji Ishiaka Tijjani, disclosed this to newsmen in Bauchi.

Tijjani said that the discovery followed the committee’s partial screening of some pensioners residing in Zaki and Katagum Local Government Councils of the state.

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He said the 20 pensioners were out of 600 pensioners screened during the partial exercise, …