The Federal Government of Nigeria payroll has been freed of 50,000 ghost workers, sparing the nation N200 billion in the most recent 11 months.
This has been made possible by the leadership program of the Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet to free the system of fraud. Through a striking activity, the Efficiency Unit of the Federal Ministry of Finance, the government has set out on the persistent examining of the pay rates and wages of government offices.
Information reaching news reporters claim the point when the Committee was constituted in February 2016, Federal government month to month pay bill was N151 billion excluding pensions. Presently the month to month pay warrant is N138 billion, barring benefits. Which implies that the legislature is making a month to month saving of about N13 billion from. That is from February 2016 to date.
The aggregate number of ghost workers so far expelled from the finance is around 50,000 and that 11 people championing the syndicate of the ghost workers have been handed over to EFCC with some of them as of now experiencing trial.
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