Posted on 12/28/2016 1:53:28 PM PST by Colofornian
The Nigerian government has rid its civil service of 50,000 ghost workers and saved over 600 million dollars in the fight against corruption, the presidency said on Tuesday.
“The Federal government payroll has been rid of 50,000 ghost workers, saving the country a huge amount of N200 billion ($636 million USD),” spokesperson of the presidency, Garba Shehu, said in a statement.
“Over N13 billion has been taken off the payroll monthly from February to December this year … The pension bill was N15.5bn monthly as at February. Now it is down to N14.4bn, which means average monthly saving is made of about N1.1bn,” he explained.
Shehu said 11 main suspects have been referred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and some are under trial.
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Nigerians scamming their own government?
The good news is all the ghost workers were part of a multi-million dollar settlement and need only send $100 to claim it.
When the New Orleans flood hit, something like 1/3 of the NOPD didn’t show up.
And now you know why.
I wonder if this will cause the ghost US Fed workers to self leave ?
Hope Pres Trump checks in on the IRS, EPA and USDA Departments unannounced to see how many useless employees he can fire. Those watching porn are a good place to start and would save billions.
I heard at the Univ. of Lagos, 419 Scams are an actual MAJOR of study, though it is formally called something else and is in the Faculty of Communication.
Maybe now that damn prince can pay me the $10 million he owes me.
-—50,000 would be a good start-—
One of these so called ghost workers contacted me about supplying them with an American bank account into which would be deposited many millions of dollars insomuch as to evade official Nigerian oversight.
Any day now. Any day
Sounds discriminatory to me. Ghosts have families to support too.
Do this in places like Detroit or Los Angeles, and watch the wailing of the liberals...
We have the same problem here.
They are called bureaucrats...............
That's weird. That is exactly what the e mail I got, told me to do. I can get 10 million dollars for only 100. Sounds good to me. I think I will do it. 50 years from next Tuesday maybe. 😆🤡👺👻
Population of Nigeria:
186,053,386
So this means that the positions of 50,000 recently fired Ghost Workers now need filling. Are newly-graduated American Millennials eligible to apply? It’d be a perfect job fit for many of them.
The reason why public employee unions backed Hillary.
Next they will start requiring the ghosts to show ID when voting.
There was a big news story a couple of weeks ago about Port Authority cops raking in massive overtime without actually working the shifts (just sleeping, I guess); people are tired of this crap and fleeing if they can. When these costs are used to justify higher fares/tolls, and the money is being stolen outright, it chases away people (and their employees) to places that will be much more accommodating...
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