The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission and other related offences on Thursday opened up that the N13.59trillion 2021 budget was padded by the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies, with duplicated projects worth N300b.

The ICPC Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, during an interface with the Senate Committee on Finance, also disclosed that projects duplication worth N100billion were also inserted into the N17.12 trillion 2022 budget by some MDAs asides the N49.9b tracked as salary for ghost workers between January and June this year.
Owasanoye explained that the N300billion duplicated projects in the 2021 budget and N100 billion in the 2022 budget were tracked through scrutinisation carried out on approved projects for the various MDAs.

The ICPC boss stated, ” N300billion would have been wasted by the Federal government on duplicated projects inserted into the 2021 budget and N100billion for same purpose in the current fiscal year if not tracked and intercepted by ICPC.”

” The same preemptive move, saved the country from spending N49.9billion for salaries of ghost workers put on fictitious payroll by the fraudulent MDAs between January and June this year.”

Owasanoye added that the names MDAs involved in projects duplications running into intercepted billions of Naira and fictitious payrolls, are available and will be forwarded to the committee.

“The good thing about the preemptive moves made by us is that monies for the fraudulent acts were prevented from being released to the affected MDAs and it is gratifying that the Finance Ministry and Accountant General Office cooperated with us,” he said.

He advised relevant committees of the National Assembly to be on the lookout for such project duplication in the proposed N19.76trillion 2023 budget.

He added, “From our own end, detection of such projects is done by verifying their locations and names, upon which we tell the appropriate authorities not to release wrongly budgeted monies for them.”

The chairman, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, who was delighted by the progress on behalf of the committee said the operational cost of the agency will be increased from N1.8billion.
He added, “This committee is impressed by proactive ways your commission is adopting in the fight against corruption.

“Your submissions clearly show that all hope is not lost for our dear country as far as fighting corruption is concerned.

“Your operational cost which is N1.8billion will be increased as the required impetus for more proactive measures against corrupt practices across the various MDAs.”

Source: https://punchng.com/icpc-uncovers-n49-9bn-ghost-workers-salaries/

Corruption must be squashed in our systems

How did our society get to this level of greed? Almost everyone has the mindset to steal.

Noted.

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Cutting down on cost of governance & wastage is one area our incoming President Obi will perform well.
God bless our incoming President of Nigeria.

All na Noise you people should getat abg...

Ghost nation l

hmmm

Omo see cash out

Nigeria is a mistake entity since 1914

What will be d outcome

Nothing will come out from this as usual.

They will soon come and defend Buhari.. please be OBIdent so that all this rubbish wil stop.. so painful

Na wah

So we should pretend like we don't know that Buhari is part of the "ghost workers"?

Okay ooo

“The good thing about the preemptive moves made by us is that monies for the fraudulent acts were prevented from being released to the affected MDAs and it is gratifying that the Finance Ministry and Accountant General Office cooperated with us,” he said.

Kudos to ICPC. They are really doing well in the fight against corruption without making so much noise.

Atiku kawai

Corruption and Hook up is now the bedrock of the Nigeria society.

Tuah

Ok naa..
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APC HAVE SUCCEEDED IN BRINGING CORRUPTION TO THE GRASSROOT LEVELS..
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Meanwhile...
INEC SHOULD JUST CONDUCT FREE, FAIR, CREDIBLE, AND TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS IN 2023, WHERE EVERYTHING IS BARE AND OPEN...
WHERE THERE WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO HIDE FROM THE PUBLIC
(INCLUDING THE FULL BREAKDOWN OF THE RESULTS)..
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Dasssol..

FG

Worst part is, nothing would be done to punish or recover looted funds.

Why not government contract the the handling of their payroll to a Private firm. Private companies seem to be doing well handling payrolls.

Most corrupt practices being supervised under Buhari APC led government in the history of Nigeria.

SHAME!!!

Uncovers what?

Is it not still those Government Officials and Politicians that include those Ghost Names?

Which means Nigeria can employ 30million staff and pay them adequately only if corruption can be tamed.

The kind of money that enter wrong hands in this country is so annoying.

The ICPC is only exposing its incompetence.

It's function is to also make sure that the perpetrators are probed and those found criminally complicit are prosecuted.

I used to tell people that corruption among civil servants is moré than that of the politicians

This country is a big fraud, even if DisOBIdient, BAT, or Mikano Man rule, it'll be the same thing.
The difference between Nigeria and The US is that every one is thought and involved in Local politics, If we can't hold Common LGA chairmen responsible for funds being dispatched is it now the President or Ministers we'd be able to hold account of?

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valentineuwakwe:

Source: https://punchng.com/icpc-uncovers-n49-9bn-ghost-workers-salaries/

Civil servants are the most corrupt in Nigeria but people only look at politicians, I know a man who get all his children government jobs before they finish university.

, if only you know, all this long story was done so they they can increase their budget allocations to the 1.8 billion. And the 1.8 billion will also include “thank you for increasing it” inside.

More money for everyone

That’s Somebody’s Quiet Cash-Out