The
Federal Government on Sunday, revealed that it has removed 23,846 ghost
workers from its payroll.
As a result of the
commencement of the BVN audit process in December 2015, it came to the fore in
January 2016 that tens of thousands of faceless workers were on the payroll of
the government.
The removal of the 23, 846
non-existent workers is said to have greatly shrunk the government’s payroll
for February 2016 by N2.293 billion.
A
statement was released to this effect by the Federal Ministry of Finance, Kemi
Adeosun.
“This figure represents a
percentage of the number of non-existent workers who had hitherto been
receiving salary from various ministries, departments and agencies.”
“The removal of non
existent workers from federal payroll and the savings on salaries was made
possible because of the ongoing BVN-based staff audit and enrollment to the
Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).”
Furthermore, the statement
inferred that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission would
continue investigation of other suspected cases.
The government is also
said to be making attempts to recover “salary balances in bank accounts as
well as any pension contributions in respect of the deleted workers. This
involves active collaboration with the concerned banks and the National Pension
Commission (Pencom).”
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