EXPOSED! One Civil Servant Gets 20 Salaries Monthly, 23,000 Ghost Workers Uncovered – Minister

 

The Finance minister, Kemi Adeosun has revealed how one

civil servant alone was collecting 20 salaries every month

and 23,000 ghost workers in the Federal Civil Service were

discovered, with the help of the Biometric Verification

Number (BVN) policy,

Adeosun disclosed during a budget defence session by the

Federal Ministry of Finance before the committee.

She told the Senate Committee on Finance that the 23,000

ghost workers discovered would be handed over to EFCC

for prosecution alongside all individuals, firms and banks

that aided the inclusion of the ghost workers on federal

government’s payroll.

The adoption of BVN in processing salary payments by the

federal government had stunningly thrown up no fewer

than 23,000 ghost names on its payroll, a development that

raised concerns about the huge amount of monies that

may have been stolen from the nation’s coffers through

such leakages in the federal civil service.

“What the IPPIS-BVN registration has shown us has been a

real revelation. We have identified that there are people

who appear on our payroll multiple times. BVN links all

the accounts of that person, so we are seeing in our

payroll 20 names to one BVN number,” Adeosun said.