by James Sambo
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission has revealed that it has so far uncovered 45,000 ghost workers in the Federal Ministry of Finance,
The commission also disclosed that the ghost workers situation had deprived the country of about N100 billion.
Chairman of the ICPC, Ekpo Nta, made the revelation on Monday, March 2, while defending his 2015 budget before the Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial Crimes and anti corruption in Abuja.
He said: “Sir, of course you know what we have done in the Ministry of Finance, on the issue of ‘ghost’ workers, where over 45,000 ‘ghost’ workers were discovered, that has saved over a N100 billion.”
Ekpo also said that the ICPC had a robust relationship with the Federal Inland Revenue Service and had actually jailed some of their staff that are not doing the right thing, while adding that the Bureau for Public Procurement was also working hand in hand with the ICPC to stop wastage within the system.
“So if anyone provides false statistics through bidding exercise they will refer you to us and that has now started cleaning out that sector,” He said.
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