The Bank Verification Number Exercise has
exposed no fewer than 23,306 ghost workers
within the Federal Government’s payroll. The
Federal Ministry of Finance made the discovery
with the adoption of the BVN for salary payment
recently.
Details of about 312,000 civil servants have so
far been checked & 23, 306 of them had
irregularities with their data within the ministry
and the one in the bank.
According to The Nation, the Federal government
has started deleting the indicted civil servants
from its payroll.
Some of those affected have
tendered their resignation letters to pre-empt
dismissal from service and prosecution. A source
from the Ministry who spoke on the development
said
“Out of the accounts of about 312,000 civil
servants processed so far, the ministry was
said to have uncovered irregularities in the
account of about 23,306 of them, who were
suspected to have been collecting double
salary. These indicted individuals are in two
categories. In the first group, we found out
that the names of some civil servants,
whose salaries are being processed, are
different from the names on the accounts
where their salaries are paid. What this
means is either those in this category are
drawing salary from two sources (which
could be different agencies), or they are
ghost workers,”.
The source added that the probe also showed
that salaries were being paid to some inactive
accounts, thus raising the suspicion that
government was merely making payment to ghost
workers. To this end, the Federal Government has
placed some banks under watch for their roles in
salary scam.
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