Despite leaving Nigeria for the UK two years ago, Sabitu Adams gets paid each month as a junior official at a government agency back home.

Adams, who now works as a taxi driver in the UK, had his name changed by a BBC report to protect his identity. The taxi driver has yet to resign from his job in Nigeria.

Adams is one of the thousands of ghost workers, a rampant issue in the Nigerian civil service. Each year, the government carries out biometric verifications and reels out numbers representing discovered ghost workers, and money saved.
But no one is ever announced to have been arrested or prosecuted.

Last week, President Bola Tinubu directed that all civil servants drawing salaries from the government after relocating abroad should be made to refund the money.
Tinubu also ordered that the culprits’ supervisors and department heads be punished for aiding and abetting the fraud while they were in charge.

Adams told the BBC that he was not worried about the president’s directives because he earned better as a taxi driver in the UK.

“When I heard about the president’s directive, I smiled because I know I am doing better here – and not worried,” the 36-year-old said.

The cab driver said he did not resign “in case I choose to go back to my job after a few years”.

Adams was quoted as saying he had an arrangement with his boss in Nigeria who is a “relative”.

madridguy:
Imagine people like Sabitu Adam will come out tomorrow and start cursing Nigeria forgetting he is also part of the rotten system.

Now, if by tomorrow the FG set up a new verification method, his likes and the useless boss will arrange people to stage a paid protest while the verification process should not commence.

As I used to say, majority of we Nigerians are very corrupt, our cries is just that the national cake has not reached us.

We have countless people like this, all they do everyday is to come online to paint Nigeria black whereas what they are doing contributed to the mess the country is suffering from.

PinkNature:
He left his Nigerian job as a civil servant to become a cab driver in the UK.

This alone should tell you how ebinpawa government has delt with Nigerias.

PinkNature:
He left his Nigerian job as a civil servant to become a cab driver in the UK.

This alone should tell you how ebinpawa government has delt with Nigerias.

helinues:
Just imagine oo

After FG must have approved the new minimum wage, the next step is to fish out the ghost workers from the government workers.

Fishing them out would save us money. They are just too many.

Labour union are only interested in salary increase but not fishing out the ghost workers

PinkNature:
He left his Nigerian job as a civil servant to become a cab driver in the UK.

This alone should tell you how ebinpawa government has delt with Nigerias.

muhammaduyusufu:

Read the post. He has been collecting salary for 2 years when he was not even in the country let alone at his job. Was Tinubu the president 2 years ago?
You are a good example of another dishonest Nigerian.

PinkNature:


Cry harder.

Signed: Ebin Pawa government.

muhammaduyusufu:

Of course. I don't expect much from a dishonest Nigerian that has mucus in place of the brain in his skull 🤷🏾‍♂️

madridguy:
Imagine people like Sabitu Adam will come out tomorrow and start cursing Nigeria forgetting he is also part of the rotten system.

Now, if by tomorrow the FG set up a new verification method, his likes and the useless boss will arrange people to stage a paid protest while the verification process should not commence.

As I used to say, majority of we Nigerians are very corrupt, our cries is just that the national cake has not reached us.

We have countless people like this, all they do everyday is to come online to paint Nigeria black whereas what they are doing contributed to the mess the country is suffering from.

madridguy:
Imagine people like Sabitu Adam will come out tomorrow and start cursing Nigeria forgetting he is also part of the rotten system.

Now, if by tomorrow the FG set up a new verification method, his likes and the useless boss will arrange people to stage a paid protest while the verification process should not commence.

As I used to say, majority of we Nigerians are very corrupt, our cries is just that the national cake has not reached us.

We have countless people like this, all they do everyday is to come online to paint Nigeria black whereas what they are doing contributed to the mess the country is suffering from.

helinues:
Just imagine oo

After FG must have approved the new minimum wage, the next step is to fish out the ghost workers from the government workers.

Fishing them out would save us money. They are just too many.

Labour union are only interested in salary increase but not fishing out the ghost workers

SmartPolician:
There are few good Nigerians; it may not be up to 500k (out of 220 million). That's why the country is a mess. Most of the people who seem good just don't have the opportunity to steal from the country.

Most Nigerians are ripping this country apart. It simply shows that Nigerians don't love their country. It's a country of hypocritical, opportunistic and dubious people.

Paraman:
Government needs to do something about this mess

chopnaira:
This is extremely common. I know of a university lecturer that's doing the same shit.

princepeter566:
An average Nigerian is a criminal.

madridguy:
Imagine people like Sabitu Adam will come out tomorrow and start cursing Nigeria forgetting he is also part of the rotten system.

Now, if by tomorrow the FG set up a new verification method, his likes and the useless boss will arrange people to stage a paid protest while the verification process should not commence.

As I used to say, majority of we Nigerians are very corrupt, our cries is just that the national cake has not reached us.

We have countless people like this, all they do everyday is to come online to paint Nigeria black whereas what they are doing contributed to the mess the country is suffering from.