FG uncovers 11,000 Ghost Workers, as Buhari Orders Routine Audit of MDAs

FG uncovers 11,000 Ghost Workers, as Buhari Orders Routine Audit of MDAs
Not long after it eliminated 23,000 ghost workers from the Federal Payroll and saved N2.29 Billion, the Federal Government on Wednesday said it has discovered another 11,000 ghost workers even as President Muhammadu Buhari issued an executive fiat for a routine audit of all ministries, agencies and parastatals.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun while briefing journalists after the Federal Executive Council's meeting held at the Presidential Villa.
She said the audit was aimed at eliminating waste from the system.
According to her, "In the budget speech, the president said that we would introduce a continuous audit process, particularly of payroll and already that work has resulted in the elimination of about 23,000 fraudulent recipients of federal salary and more work is still ongoing.
"We felt that the continuous audit work should not just be limited to payroll, there is actually need to strengthen internal audit across government and to that extent, the World Bank had in 2010 started an
initiative to try and introduce real-space internal audit in Nigeria, but it wasn't successful," Adeosun further said.
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