Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Chairman Mr. Ekpo Nta said yesterday that his agency will go after the 23,846 ghost workers, whose name have been removed from the Federal Government payroll.
The Federal Ministry of Finance claimed that the figure was discovered after a biometric exercise following the completion of the Banks Verification Number (BVN).
He said the ICPC has the photographs and biometric information of those who have been drawing over N2.293 billion from the Federal Government payroll on monthly basis.
“Thanks to the BVN, we now know those who claim to be ghost workers and have been drawing huge amounts of money from government coffers on monthly basis.
“I was not worried about them because I know one day they would start coming from their graves. Now, we have their photographs and biometric information. So, we will soon begin to arrest them,” Nta said.
The ICPC Chairman, who made the remarks at the closing ceremony of the Sixth Workshop on Transparency and Accountability in the Legislature for members of the 8th State Houses of Assembly in Abuja, did not give details of how the commission would effect the arrest of the ghost workers.
He said in as much as the commission is focusing on preventive mechanism to curb corruption in Nigeria, the commission was worried about what had become the fate of the cases of frauds in the National Identity Card Scheme.
Nta said besides the National Identity Card issue, there were over 400 cases in various courts across the country, some of which had gone up the Supreme Court, yet without any landmark judgment.
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