Enugu State Government has placed its employees under surveillance owing to what it calls the high level corruption in the civil service.
The State Executive Council says anyone found wanting will be dismissed and prosecuted.
Information Commi-ssioner, Ogbuagu Anikwe, told reporters in Enugu that the decision followed the discovery of fraudulent acts by workers in the Post Primary School Education Management Board (PPSMB).
Government, he said, found that wages were being paid to ghost workers in the board.
He said: “The Chairman of the board, Mr. Nestor Ezeme, had three months ago obtained the leave of the council to pay salaries directly to workers after which he had a leftover of N7 million in the first month.
“He thought it was an oversight and that those not paid would come to claim the sum but it continued for three months.”
Anikwe said the unclaimed N21 million saved in the last three months had been returned to the state treasury.