FG saves N50bn as it weeds off 43,000 ghost workers, cuts down on allowancesdhdh

The Head of the Continuous Audit team of the Federal

Government, Mohammed Dikwa says the Federal government has

saved up to N50 billion through the audit of security agencies

payroll and has been able to weed off 43, 000 ghost workers from its

payroll.

Dikwa said this at a meeting between the Continuous Audit team,

Minister of Finance and Heads of Para-Military agencies to discuss

ways to clean up the payroll of the security agencies, in Abuja

yesterday May 24th;

“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. Please note

the cost is not related to ghost workers alone but with

allowances which we believe have to be trimmed down so that

we can manage the cost of governance’’he said.Bdhdhdhdh