The use of the Biometric Verification Numbers in
processing salary payments by the Federal
Government may have resulted in something
interesting: the discovery of no fewer than 23,306
ghost names on the payroll.
According to a report by The Nation, a team
probing multiple salary payments recommended
23,306 civil servants and some banks for
thorough investigations and has prompted the
government to delete the indicted civil servants
from its payroll.
It was also learnt that some of those affected
have tendered their resignation letters to pre-
empt dismissal from service and prosecution.
According to a source, of 312,306 civil servants,
whose bank accounts have so far been checked
through the Bank Verification Number (BVN)
platform, 23,306 have issues with their accounts.
The adoption of the BVN for salary payment has
the Federal Ministry of Finance has so far
checked the details of about 312,000 civil
servants— a development said to have led to the
discovery of many irregularities in salary
payment.
“Out of the accounts of about 312,000 civil
servants processed so far, the ministry was said
to have uncovered irregularities in the account of
about 23,306 of them, who were suspected to
have been collecting double salary.
“These indicted individuals are in two categories.
In the first group, we found out that the names
of some civil servants, whose salaries are being
processed, are different from the names on the
accounts where their salaries are paid. What this
means is either those in this category are
drawing salary from two sources (which could be
different agencies), or they are ghost workers,”
the source said.
The source added that the probe also showed
that salaries were being paid to some inactive
accounts, thus raising the suspicion that
government was merely making payment to
ghost workers.
Also, Federal Government has placed some
banks under watch for their roles in the salary
scam.
The probe panel was said to have discovered
that some of the inactive accounts were
domiciled in a particular branch of a bank.
It was learnt that over 300 accounts of some
civil servants were opened on the same day and
all of them have become dormant.
The Special Adviser to the Minister of Finance
on Media Matters, Mr. Festus Akanbi, said last
night, “The public will be appropriately briefed
when the full report is ready.”
The adoption of the BVN became inevitable due
to the failure of the Integrated Payroll Personnel
Information System (IPPIS) to effectively deal
with the issue of ghost workers in the federal
civil service.

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