23,000 Ghost Workers: One Worker Collecting 20 Salaries

   

The was an atmosphere of Shock when the Finance minister Femi Adeosu revealed in the Senate floor that with the help of the Bank Verification Number there are discoveries that one civil servant collects as much as 20 salaries per month.
She told the senate committee on Finance that 23,000 ghost workers was discovered in the federal civil service,and would be handed over to the EFCC for  prosecution.

“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 during a budget defence session by the Federal Ministry of Finance before the committee.

 The Senate committee agreed with the minister and directed that the attorney-general of the federation, Abubakar Malami, begin the prosecution and sanctioning of all individuals, firms and banks that aided the inclusion of the 23,000 ghost workers on federal government’s payroll.

It had been reported exclusively that with the help of the ongoing verification of the Niger State workforce, a messenger at the state’s ministry of finance earned N265,000 monthly and a cleaner at General Hospital, Minna, earned N375,000 monthly, while no fewer than three permanent secretaries in the state’s civil service earned over N1.3 million monthly.