Managing Director of one the first generation banks, some top directors in the federal civil service as well as top
management staff of a pension commission are in deep trouble over alleged complicity in the
over bloated salary profile of civil servants.
Those affected, who are allegedly being investigated
by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission and other
anti-graft agencies, were said to
have been linked to the ghost
workers recently discovered in
the civil service.
Nigerian Pilot Sunday learnt
that the federal government
was dismayed that its effort
to eliminate ghost workers
in its payroll through the
Integrated Payroll Personnel
Information System, IPPIS,
was not only frustrated but
seriously compromised with the
aid of some banks working in
connivance with some directors
in the federal civil service.
In one instance, it was learnt
that an individual from one of the ministries opened a salary
account for 3000 workers, using
same name while another using
a convenience of a hotel room
had in conjunction with a senior
staff of one of the banks opened
salary accounts for thousands of
ghost workers.
Already, the Ministry of
Finance has discovered that no
fewer than 23,000 ghost workers
were discovered in the core
ministries while a lot more than
are suspected to have been found
out in the federal agencies and
parastatals, a development that
forced the Minister of Information
and National Orientation,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to raise
alarm that the IPPIS had been
compromised.
According to the minister,
the federal government has
instituted a machine to refine
the IPPPIS and ensure that it is
redesigned and made to function
to the desired expectation of the
government.
Minister of Finance, Ms Kemi
Adeosun, had blown the lip
on the salary scam in the civil
service while defending her
ministry’s 2016 budget before the
Senate Committee on Finance.
The minister had revealed that
though the Bank Verification
Number, BVN, and IPPIS had
helped the federal government
to discover 23,000 ghost workers
in the civil service, a lot still
needed to be done to totally
stamp out padded federal wage
bill through use of ghost workers
by some directors.
Also, the federal government,
according to sources, is worried
that the pension commission
has continued to remain a
fertile ground for financial
scam. It would be recalled the
commission had been embroiled
in a mess following the discovery
that some senior officials had
deeped their hands into the
tilt and corruptly enriched
themselves from the pension
proceeds of workers.
Though the EFCC had wielded
into the matter, nothing concrete
has been achieved since neither
the top staff implicated in the
case had been judiciously made
to pay for the alleged crime nor
has the trend been halted.
Accordingly, the federal
government is set to re-open the
case in addition to prosecuting
new cases which are currently
being investigated. It was in the
light of these that the Director-
General of the National Pension
Commission, Chinelo Anohu-
Amazu, was summoned to the
Minister of Finance for some
discussions, on Thursday.
The Special Adviser to
the Minister of Finance on


Source http://nigerianpilot.com/ghost-workers-pencom-boss-bank-md-in-trouble/

End time bribe can save them d job...



No need to worry

Some people need to be killed @once instead of wasting time to investigate.

Another one bites the dust...

But what's up with the reporter?

"...deeped their hands"
"...wielded into the matter"