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FG says it sacked 50,000 ghost workers,saved N200bn in 2016

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The Federal Government on Tuesday said it discovered 50,000 ghost workers and in the process saved N200billion as N13 billion was taken off the payroll monthly from February to December this year.

This was disclosed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, when he spoke with State House correspondents at an interactive meeting to mark the end of the year, adding that 11 persons championing the syndicate of ghost workers have been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for trial.

“The flagship program of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to rid the system of fraud and instil good governance is on course. Through a notable initiative, the Efficiency Unit of the Federal Ministry of Finance, the government has embarked on the continuous auditing of the salaries and wages of government departments.

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“When the committee was constituted in February 2016, Federal government monthly salary bill was N151 billion excluding pensions. Now the monthly salary warrant is N138 billion, excluding pensions, which means that the government is making a monthly saving of about N13 billion. That is from February 2016 to date,” he said.

The Presidential spokesman added that “the pension bill was 15.5bn monthly as at February. Now it is down to N14.4 billion, which means average monthly saving is made of about N1.1 billion.”

 

 

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  1. seyi jelili

    December 28, 2016 at 8:50 am

    Where is the #200b and what was it used for if at all they got that. though I don’t encourage ghost workers but how have they utilize the money they kept from paying the ghost workers to help the economy?

    • Animashaun Ayodeji

      December 28, 2016 at 9:59 am

      At least this government opened up about the ghost workers and how much their payroll had saved the economy, we should be glad and hope the money will be well utilized

  2. JOHNSON PETER

    December 28, 2016 at 8:54 am

    sometimes I wonder who are the employers of these ghost workers, kudos to buhari for his serious anti-corruption crusade. it has saved Nigeria a lot. but there are lots to do. we still have more ghost workers in the system which we must flush out.

  3. Emmanuel Alayegbami

    December 28, 2016 at 9:01 am

    #200bn is not a small money. at least that money can be used to pay new employed people if government can do that. all I want them to do is to employ people to fill in those ghost workers’ positions.

    • yanju omotodun

      December 28, 2016 at 9:05 am

      we should not be deceived, ghost workers syndrome can never be eradicated in Nigeria. it is the hand work of our leaders but we won’t understand that. states like Kogi state, Ekiti state, and Lagos state have so many ghost workers especially at the local government level.

      • Amaka Okoro

        December 29, 2016 at 12:48 am

        My God will bless you because you have wisdom. Our leaders are the ghost workers. They use it to get more money to there pocket.bad leaders

  4. Margret Dickson

    December 28, 2016 at 10:09 am

    This is outrageous, this means some people have been embezzling nothing less than n200bn over the years, all in the name of paying “workers” salaries. God will punish them after Buhari finishes with them.

    • Amarachi Okoye

      December 29, 2016 at 12:40 am

      No punishment hear but it is called wiseness and buhari will do nothing. Because his among the ghost workers

  5. Roland Uchendu Pele

    December 28, 2016 at 12:56 pm

    Non-existent workers are sacked. What a rendition!

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