By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan.
Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media, Mallam Garba Shehu on Tuesday said Federal Government saved over 200 billion naira and rid its payroll of 50,000 ghost workers.
Mallam Shehu who made this known on his Twitter handle also declared that “so far, 11 persons championing the syndicate of the ghost workers have been referred to EFCC with some of them already undergoing trial”
According to Mallam Shehu, “the pension bill was N15.5billion monthly as at February. Now, it is down to N14.4billion which means average monthly saving is made of about N1.1billion”
“The Federal Government payroll has been rid of 50,000 ghost workers, saving the country a huge amount of N200billion. The flagship programme of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to rid the system of fraud and instill good governance is on course”he said.
Mallam Shehu added that this means that “the government is making a monthly saving of about N13billioin. That is from February 2016 to date”.
Mallam Shehu who made this known on his Twitter handle also declared that “so far, 11 persons championing the syndicate of the ghost workers have been referred to EFCC with some of them already undergoing trial”
According to Mallam Shehu, “the pension bill was N15.5billion monthly as at February. Now, it is down to N14.4billion which means average monthly saving is made of about N1.1billion”
“The Federal Government payroll has been rid of 50,000 ghost workers, saving the country a huge amount of N200billion. The flagship programme of the Muhammadu Buhari administration to rid the system of fraud and instill good governance is on course”he said.
Mallam Shehu added that this means that “the government is making a monthly saving of about N13billioin. That is from February 2016 to date”.