Nigeria’s Federal government on Tuesday announced that it has saved the country N200 billion in the last 11 months by getting rid of 50,000 ghost workers form its payroll.
Governments also said that the 11 persons championing the syndicate of ghost workers have been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, disclosed this while Speaking with State House correspondents at an interactive meeting to mark the end the year.
Shehu said, “The flagship program of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to rid the system of fraud and instill 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.
“When the 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.
He added that the “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.”
