The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
yesterday
revealed that the federal government has blocked a N208.7 billion ghost
workers scam in government parastatals and agencies after a biometric
collection exercise carried out to get a proper data of federal civil
servants revealed that 62,893 of the workers who were hitherto on the
payroll of the federal government were ghost workers.
Speaking to
newsmen in Abuja, the Minister said when the biometric exercise was
introduced, most of the civil servants did not show up, an indication
that they were ghost workers and after their disengagement, the federal
government has been able to save about N208.7 billion usually expended
as salaries and benefits on these ghost workers
