37,000 Ghost Pensioners Discovered in Nigeria
The biometric audit carried out by the federal government of Nigeria to ascertain the actual number of its pensioners has yielded dividends as it has discovered 37,000 ghost pensioners, said Prof. Oladapo Afolabi, the Head of service of the Federation, on Tuesday in Abuja.
Prof. Oladapo Afolabi said the number of pensioners dropped from 97,000 to 60,000, meaning that there had been ghost pensioners and fraud.
He said that more than $935 million was paid every month as pensions to retired federal civil servants.
“With the biometrics, we have a new register of 60,000 pensioners which replaced the old register with 97,000.
“About 37,000 fake pensioners have been removed from our pay roll, thereby identifying the genuine pensioners and paying them their entitlement,’’ he said.
Afolabi said the present leadership of the civil service had set a target of productivity, improved welfare, training and retraining for all categories of civil servants.
The federal service has a strength of 197,000, but that the number is coming down following the ongoing biometrics staff auditing being conducted to fish out ghost workers.
Source African Press Agency
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Iam one of the retirees and have been screened photographed and yet my pensions was last paid on may 2010 from june 2010 to this moment ,2011 februrary nothing has been paid. And Iam starving including my young children in university. I beg our President Jonathan Goodluck to come to our aid as God fearing President.Those responsible for the delay should be fired because only the living can make Nigeria great and not the Dead.In jesus name we shall LIVE to get our entertlements in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ AMEN.