It was technical glitch – Kano govt explains double salary payments to workers

The Kano State Government has directed the betterment of duplicate July 2026 wage payments mistakenly credited to immoderate civilian servants, attributing the incidental to a method glitch during the wage outgo process.
The directive was contained successful a announcement signed by Abdulhadi Hamza, Deputy Director, KIPPIS, for the Kano State Accountant General and dated July 26, 2026.

According to the circular, the duplicate wage payments resulted from “a method contented connected the portion of the slope during the wage outgo process.”

The authorities said the affected slope has commenced the process of reversing the excess payments straight from the accounts of workers who received the duplicate salaries.

“The acrophobic slope is presently making efforts to reverse the duplicate payments straight from the affected accounts. In presumption of this, each affected unit are kindly advised not to instrumentality immoderate enactment astatine this clip and to await further directives from the Office of the Accountant General,” the announcement stated.

The authorities added that wherever the slope is incapable to retrieve the excess outgo done the reversal process, affected work...