No BVN No Salaries.

It seems the issues concerning the acceptance by Nigeria citizens in obtaining their bank verification codes is becoming more successful as Kwara Government says any worker that failed to submit
his/her Bank Verification Number (BVN) within seven days
will not receive salary.
Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed stated this during a meeting of
the Committee on Personnel Database Development in
Ilorin on Tuesday.
He said government has no intention of withholding any
worker’s salary without justification.
The governor also said affected workers and pensioners will
be credited with their salaries and pensions but will not be
able to access the money until they obtain BVN.
Ahmed, who is also Chairman of the committee, explained
that the unique bank numbers were necessary for
preliminary verification of workers and pensioners on the
state and local government councils’ payrolls.
He noted that at this stage of the verification, those
without valid BVN could not yet be designated as ghost
workers.
Ahmed said the intention of the database was to give
government accurate picture of state and councils’ payrolls
and ensure that those properly employed received salaries/
pensions.
Alternate Chairman of the committee, Alhaji Isiaka Gold,
said only 49, 579 out of the 82, 642 workers so screened,
had valid BVN.
He added that 124 workers were so far discovered to have
fake BVN.
He said that the first level verification also revealed 324
individuals who were linked to 659 multiple accounts.
Gold, who is also the Secretary to the State Government,
urged workers and pensioners yet to submit their BVN to do
so within seven days or risk having their payments
withheld.
He called on workers who were properly recruited by the
state and local governments to remain calm, assuring that
ongoing verification will not affect their salaries and jobs.
With these actions if other states could emulate this then the more people would have no choice but to accept it.