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FG saves N6.4 billion monthly from ghost workers.
The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit says that its activities are saving the country about N6.4bn every month from ghost workers. It also claims to have found discrepancies in the payroll of the Federal Government’s Ministries, Agencies and Departments to the tune of N5.7 billion monthly.
This was made known by Mr Mohammed Dikwa, Head of the Continuous Audit Team, in an interview with media men on Friday in Kano. He spoke at a two-day National Revenue Retreat, organised by the Ministry of Finance. The findings represented the true state of affairs as at June 30, 2016, Mr Dikwa said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Buhari had set up the Continuous Audit Team to look into the finance of Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies.
“In terms of ghost workers, we have found about 43,000 ghost workers so far and as at May 30, we had N4.2 billion that is saved on a monthly basis. But as at June, 30, we were able to make more recoveries of N2.2 billion which has led to an additional savings of N6.4 billion monthly,” Dikwa said.
He added that all suspected cases of ghost workers were being forwarded to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to ensure recoveries while affirming that the personnel cost of the federal government had been reduced from N150 billion monthly in January, to N142 billion per month as at June 2016.
“It is expected that by Dec 31, over N100 billion will be reduced from the budgeted personnel cost of the 2016 year, he said.
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