ICPC to prosecute 45,000 ‘ghost’ workers

Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, ICPC, has concluded plans to investigate and prosecute 45,000 ghost workers that were traced in federal ministry of finance.
A highly placed source at the ICPC told Nigerian pilot Sunday that the operatives of the commission are currently working on the names of the top ranking civil servants, who conspired to commit the fraud before the operatives will swing into full action.
According to the source, a lot of permanent secretaries, Directors of finance in federal ministries and federal government parastatals and their Directors of Administration were allegedly involved in the scandal.
He said that the legal department of the ICPC and the department of investigations been headed by their respectively head of departments, HODs, are tirelessly working day and night to see how those involved will be charged to court immediately after the general elections.
The federal ministry of finance had uncovered 45, 000 ghost workers in the Federal Ministry of Finance, a development that had robbed the country about N100bn.
Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Mr. Ekpo Nta, stated this while defending his 2015 budget before the Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial Crimes and anti corruption in Abuja.
He said, “Sir, of course you know what we have done in the Ministry of Finance, on the issue of ‘ghost’ workers, where over 45,000 ‘ghost’ workers were discovered, that has saved over a N100 billion.”