Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo
Iweala yesterday revealed that the federal
government has blocked a N208.7 billion ghost
workers scam in government parastatals and
agencies after a biometric collection exercise
carried out to get a proper data of federal civil
servants revealed that 62,893 of the workers
who were hitherto on the payroll of the federal
government were ghost workers.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja, the Minister said
when the biometric exercise was introduced,
most of the civil servants did not show up, an
indication that they were ghost workers and
after their disengagement, the federal
government has been able to save about N208.7
billion usually expended as salaries and benefits
on these ghost workers
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