In a
shocking revelation, Finance minister has lamented that having ghost
workers in the civil service had caused grave leakage to Nigeria's
revenue.
Minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun
While defending her ministry’s budget yesterday as she appeared
before the Senate Committee on Finance, Kemi Adeosun, the Minister of
Finance, revealed that the Bank Verification Number (BVN), and
Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System had helped the Federal
Government discover 23,000 ghost workers in the civil service.
The minister lamented that having ghost workers in the civil
service had caused grave leakage to Nigeria’s revenue, adding that the
use of the BVN assisted the IPPIS to detect the fraud perpetrated
through the creation of ghost workers.
She said, "As we speak now, we have about 23,000 that we need
to investigate. Those whom either the BVN is linked to multiple payment
or the name on the BVN account is not consistent with the name on our
own payroll.
"If we are able to get everybody onto the BVN platform, we will be able to save a considerable amount of personnel cost."
She added that economic crimes investigative agencies would
prosecute the banks, firms and individuals working in cahoot to defraud
the Federal Government by padding it payroll.
"My job is to get them off our payroll, what happens from there
on goes to the investigative agencies; we will pass our files onto them
and they will take a decision as to what sanctions they will take.
"Not only will we remove those people from our payroll, but we
will also be going after the banks involved to collect our money."
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