There Are About 2 million Ghost Workers On FG’s Payroll – Former Civil Service Director

A former director with the Federal Civil Service; Mr Gabriel Omohinmi has revealed that the recent investigation that discovered 45,000 ghost workers in the Federal Government’s payroll is just a drop in the system.
According to him, if a thorough investigation is conducted, “there are about 2-3million ghost workers in the civil service.”
“The audit that revealed the 45,000 ghost workers was only carried out on 251 Ministries and Department and Agencies (MDAs). We still have 321 MDAs that have not yet being touched” stated the former director.
Further explaining the rot in the civil service, Mr Omohinmi stated that the service operates a system whereby relatives of a family pack themselves onto the government’s payroll.
“It is disheartening. In some agencies, you will find a mother, a cousin, a nephew, a son, a daughter, all loaded in the same agency posted to various departments. If you have cause to complain about the person who brought them in, they go home and meet the person and the following morning, queries start flying all about….so you dare not protest.”
He further adds that this network frustrates any iota of activism of union members. “Once they see that you are active, they throw you to Siberia where one cannot operate.”
The former civil servant also revealed that the agency created to take complaints and petitions from workers; SERVICOM is bloated with people that are loyal to the system hence the anomaly is further enshrined without remorse.
“I don’t know how to describe what is happening in the federal service. It is terrible” he affirmed.
Other revelations made by Mr Omohinmi are that there are serving directors in the civil service that are richer than state governors with the kind of allocations they get in terms of property. The leakages are embarrassing”…… “a lot of unspent money is shared amongst themselves at the end of the year.”
He narrates how corruption is persevered in the current civil service by the weeding out of any staff that do not want to cooperate with the corrupt tradition.
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