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ICPC uncovers 908 ghost workers, Police Top List

ICPC uncovers 908 ghost workers, Police Top List

By Adenuga Toheeb Ayoola

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has uncovered 908 suspected ghost workers during a payroll verification exercise, with the Nigeria Police Force and five federal ministries and agencies recording the highest number of suspected fake workers.

According to a BBC Pidgin report on Wednesday, the ICPC Chairman, Musa Adamu Aliyu (SAN), discovered the findings while speaking on the commission’s investigation into payroll fraud across Federal Government institutions.

The commission stated that 908 ghost workers was discovered in at least 50 ministries, departments and agencies, recovering about N942m allegedly paid as fraudulent salaries.

According to the ICPC, ghost workers are fictitious names inserted into government payrolls to receive salaries fraudulently.
In some cases, salaries are allegedly diverted by officials who add relatives or associates to the payroll despite them not being employed.

The ICPC chairman, Aliyu said that investigators uncovered one case involving a man who allegedly placed the names of his wife, son and mother-in-law on the payroll while also collecting the salaries of 12 workers.

Among the institutions identified, the Nigeria Police Force recorded the highest number of suspected fake workers.
“For this operation, we identified 570 people whom we suspect are among the fake workers collecting salaries without working,” the ICPC chairman said about the police data.

The National Water Resources Authority followed with 80 suspected fake workers, Federal Ministry of Works recorded 56 suspected fake workers, while the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had 24.
The Ministry of Defence was found to have 19 suspected fake workers.
“For the Ministry of Defence, we identified 19 people acting as fake workers,”

"Other affected institutions include the Federal Ministry of Electricity and the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, with 17 suspected fake workers each; the Federal Ministry of Health with 15; and the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation with 12”, the ICPC chairman said.

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