43,000 ‘ghost workers’ uncovered in Nigerian security agencies

The Head of the Continuous Audit team of the Federal Government,
Mohammed Dikwa, on Tuesday said N50 billion was saved so far through
the audit of security agencies payroll.
Mr. Dikwa said this in Abuja at a meeting between the Continuous Audit
team, Minister of Finance and Heads of Para-Military agencies.
President Mohammadu Buhari had set up the Continuous Audit team to
look into the payroll of all Federal Government's Ministries,
Departments and Agencies.
The team had already embarked on the audit of the Military payroll and
enrolling them on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information
System (IPPIS).
"Since we started the continuous audit programme, we have saved about
N50 billion and over 43,000 ghost workers have been removed from the
payroll of the federal government.
"And as we go on, we are very sure that we will continue to reduce the
cost of federal government payroll.