The Federal Government says it has removed 23,846 non-existent workers from its payroll.
Consequently, the salary bill for February 2016 has reduced by N2.293 billion when compared to December 2015 at which time the BVN audit process commenced.
A statement from the Federal Ministry of Finance on Sunday said “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 statement added that further investigation of other suspected cases will continue in conjunction with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
” 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 enrolment to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS)”, the statement said.
The Federal Government is also making efforts 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).” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Who are the cabal behind this and what punishment did or will they face.?
ReplyDeleteindeed, they should be fished out and punished
ReplyDeleteI always laugh whenever people come up to say that Civil Service is over-bloated. The truth is that-the actual number of workers is far less than what you see on the nominal roll. Over 30% of workers are actually ghost workers and government undeniably knows about it. its even worse at State and LGAs.
ReplyDeleteYou're very correct
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