Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo while delivering a keynote address at
the opening ceremony of the Open Government Partnership week, revealed
that Nigerian government under president Muhammadu Buhari saved about
two hundred billion naira (N2,000,000,000) by eliminating ghost workers
from its payroll.
He made the speech while highlighting government’s efforts in
cleaning the federal civil service from corrupt practices. The OGP week
began this Monday (today).
It is being attended by Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, Boss Mustapha, Minister of Justice, Budget and National
Planning, Ambassadors of US and UK.
The VP said the government had put in place the Presidential
Initiative on Continuous Audit, which helps to keep a check on the
federal payroll and pensions.
A tweet from the FG official page on Twitter read: “The FG has
also established the Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit to
clean up Federal payroll and pension systems across our ministries,
departments and agencies and this has saved the FG over N200b by
eliminating ghost workers.” – @ProfOsinbajo