The Federal Government on Sunday, revealed that it has removed 23,846 ghost workers from its payroll.
As a result of the commencement of the BVN audit process in December 2015, it came to the fore in January 2016 that tens of thousands of faceless workers were on the payroll of the government.
The removal of the 23, 846 non-existent workers is said to have greatly shrunk the government’s payroll for February 2016 by N2.293 billion.
A statement was released to this effect by the Federal Ministry of Finance.
“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 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).”
Furthermore, the statement inferred that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission would continue investigation of other suspected cases.
The government is also said to be making attempts 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).”
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