Corruption: FG sacks 50,000 ghost workers, saves more than N200bn in 2016

By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA-To rid the public service of corruption, the Federal government successfully identified and sacked 50,000 ghost workers.
This has also saved the country a huge amount totaling up to N200 billion.
The is consequent upon the taking off of N13 billion from the payroll, monthly, from February to December in 2016.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu who made the disclosure to State House correspondents on Abuja also hinted that 11 persons championing the syndicate of ghost workers have been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
President Buhari
According to him, some were also undergoing trial at the courts.

“The flagship program of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to rid the system of fraud and instill good governance is on course. Through a notable initiative, the Efficiency Unit of the Federal Ministry of Finance, the government has embarked on the continuous auditing of the salaries and wages of government departments.

When the the Committee was constituted in February 2016, Federal government monthly salary bill was N151 billion excluding pensions. Now the monthly salary warrant is N138 billion, excluding pensions. Which means that the government is making a monthly saving of about N13 billion. That is from February 2016 to date,” he said.