From Reno Omokri's 'The broom or the vacuum cleaner'

https://www.nairaland.com/2119726/broom-vacuum-cleaner

Prior to the Goodluck Jonathan administration, there were fifty thousand ghost workers in the Federal Civil Service. They drained the treasure of about 2 billion US dollars annually. President Jonathan could have used the broom on them by unleashing the police and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate who and who were collecting these fifty thousand unearned salaries. It would have taken many hours of investigation, evidence gathering, judicial process and lawyers to achieve that.

Being the philosopher king that he is, President Jonathan chose instead to employ technology to tackle the problem and using the software of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, this administration made it impossible for anybody who has not been physically captured in the IPPIS system, by way of entering his/her finger prints and biometrics, to receive a salary. And voila! in one fell swoop, all the fifty thousand ghost workers were excluded and the Federal Government was able to save billions every year that would have gone on salaries.

I don't understand, is the FG actually BOASTING of letting crooks who have been stealing $2bn ANNUALLY to go free? Is this what Reno Omokri is saying, that criminal prosecution of the corrupt is actually a bad thing?

Is the Government not able to multi-task...close loopholes while bringing those crooks to justice?

Typical Naija leaders for you o.

texazzpete:

From Reno Omokri's 'The broom or the vacuum cleaner'

https://www.nairaland.com/2119726/broom-vacuum-cleaner




I don't understand, is the FG actually BOASTING of letting crooks who have been stealing $2bn ANNUALLY to go free? Is this what Reno Omokri is saying, that criminal prosecution of the corrupt is actually a bad thing?

Is the Government not able to multi-task...close loopholes while bringing those crooks to justice?

Maybe he was one of the ghost workers and he is rejoicing because he escaped jail.

the IPPIS structure also has issues. some get underpaid while others get overpaid. heard the story of a mistake that occurred in a government hospital; a cleaner got the salary of the the MD. the women became speechless when she saw an alert that would take her 10 years to save up for.

if the introduced structure works, why then is the overhead cost of the civil service still high?

he will set up a committee.

texazzpete:

From Reno Omokri's 'The broom or the vacuum cleaner'
https://www.nairaland.com/2119726/broom-vacuum-cleaner
I don't understand, is the FG actually BOASTING of letting crooks who have been stealing $2bn ANNUALLY to go free? Is this what Reno Omokri is saying, that criminal prosecution of the corrupt is actually a bad thing?
Is the Government not able to multi-task...close loopholes while bringing those crooks to justice?

Why should anyone be surprised at this?... You don't expect Mr Omokri to go against the deeply enshrined, albeit warped ideology of his boss, do you?

Leopantro:
the IPPIS structure also has issues. some get underpaid while others get overpaid. heard the story of a mistake that occurred in a government hospital; a cleaner got the salary of the the MD. the women became speechless when she saw an alert that would take her 10 years to save up for.

if the introduced structure works, why then is the overhead cost of the civil service still high?

they replaced the analogue ghost workers with e-ghost workers.