FG Hands Over 11 Promoters Of Ghost Workers To EFCC, Sacks 50,000 Ghosts, Saves N200 Billion

The Federal Government has announced that 11 Nigerians, who specialize in promoting ghost workers have been identified and handed over to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) even as 50,000 ghost workers have been fished out, leading to the saving of N200 billion.
According to the Presidency, the amount of N13 billion was gradually saved off ghost workers monthly salaries from February to December this year.
Speaking with State House correspondents at an interactive meeting to mark the end the year, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu confirmed that 11 persons championing the syndicate of ghost workers have been handed over to the EFCC.
“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.”
The Presidential spokesman added: “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.” [myad]