Just One Civil Servant Takes 20 Salaries, BVN Exposed Them – Finance Minister

The outcry over the menace of ghost worker fraud reverberated when the finance minister, Kemi Adeosun, threw a bombshell by revealing that, with the help of the Biometric Verification Number (BVN) policy, it has been discovered that just one civil servant alone collected 20 salaries every month.

She has also declared that those behind the 23,000 ghost workers discovered in the Federal Civil Service payroll would be handed over to EFCC for prosecution. No more go and sin no more.

The adoption of BVN in processing salary payments by the federal government had stunningly thrown up no fewer than 23,000 ghost names on its payroll, a development that raised concerns about the huge amount of monies that may have been stolen from the nation’s coffers through such leakages in the federal civil service.

“What the IPPIS-BVN registration has shown us has been a real revelation. We have identified that there are people who appear on our payroll multiple times. BVN links all the accounts of that person, so we are seeing in our payroll 20 names to one BVN number,” Adeosun said.

Ghost worker syndrome is one of the many ways top civil servants have been stealing our money.