– Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed charges against five officials, who allegedly padded the Federal Government payroll with about 50,000 ‘ghost’ workers.
– An EFCC source said the suspects had been charged to court but the case had not yet been assigned to any judge
EFCC charges officials over 50,000 ‘ghost’ workers
Anti-graft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed charges against five officials, who allegedly padded the Federal Government payroll with about 50,000 ‘ghost’ workers.
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According to a report by Punch, an EFCC source said the suspects had been charged to court but the case had not yet been assigned to any judge.
A detective at the commission said; “You will recall that the Ministry of Finance sent the names of some suspects perpetrating the ‘ghost’ workers’ fraud. We have been able to charge five people. However, investigations are still ongoing.
“During the course of investigation, it was also discovered that a worker with the defunct Ministry of Housing and Urban Development was still receiving full salary after he had been transferred to the National Space Research and Development Agency. We discovered that he had collected N9.6m as salary while also collecting salary from his previous place of work.
“It was practically the fault of the ministry because the ministry did not stop his previous salary when it should have done so. The suspect is also culpable because he failed to inform the authorities.”
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Recall that the senior special assistant to the President on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, had revealed in December that the Efficiency Unit of the Federal Ministry of Finance, created by the present administration, was able to uncover the 50,000 ‘ghost’ workers and saved the nation N13bn monthly during the year.
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