Saturday, 1 July 2017

Federal Government uncovers 60,000 ghost workers




  

     No fewer than 60,000 ghost workers have been uncovered by the Federal Government since the introduction of the bank verification number, BVN, according to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.

   Osinbajo was giving an update on government’s war on corruption at the 5th Annual Christopher Kolade Lecture on Business Integrity in Lagos.
   This is almost twice the 33,000 figure given by Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun in October last year.
   The minister said at the time, that the removal of the names of the 33000 ghost workers from payrolls of federal government’s ministries, departments and agencies had helped in reducing the wage bill from N166billion to N142billion.
   Osinbajo said the Buhari admnistration would not relent in the  anti-corruption war, although he stressed that the war was better fought by preventing it than trying to recover stolen funds.

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