The Federal government says it has got rid of 50,000 ghost workers from its payroll and subsequently saving the country a huge amount of N200 billion.
Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, made this known at an interactive meeting with State House correspondents in Abuja on Tuesday.
According to him, about N13billion has been taken off the payroll monthly from February to December this year.
Shehu announced that 11 persons championing the syndicate of ghost workers had been handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for further interrogation and possible prosecution.
“The flagship programme of the Muhammadu Buhariadministration 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 committee was constituted in February 2016, Federal government monthly salarybill was N151 billion excluding pensions.
“Now the monthly salarywarrantis 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.
The Presidential spokesman explained 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.

Who were the 'ghosts'?

With all the savings from looted funds, ghost workers, TSA etc APC still want to borrow $30b. Let us mamage the funds we have first.

there's plenty money yet no money

but d money will go into d acct of another ghost workers

Ok! So where did the 200billy go?

These people are clowns ooh, how can they save money when they have not paid us for three months.
Government of clowns believed by clowns.

Sunnymatey:
With all the savings from looted funds, ghost workers, TSA etc APC still want to borrow $30b. Let us mamage the funds we have first.

Who did this to u?

This people lie more than Satan. You are owing all federal workers nationwide from 1 to 9 months and you dare open the gutter you call mouth. Why not prosecute the officers who covered up so called ghost workers.

muri4mig:

Who did this to u?

Is he not saying the truth?

most useless govt in the history of nigeria
be paying half salary since February and be claiming ghost workers

most useless govt in the history of nigeria
be paying half salary since February and be claiming ghost workers

Imagine how much we can save from the 469 "ghost worker" that we call our federal legislators at NAss.