“The EFCC has uncovered 37,395 ghost workers in the federal civil service. And investigation is still going on.
“Our investigations have so far revealed that the Federal Government has lost close to N1bn to these ghost workers.
“The figure will definitely increase as we unravel more ghost workers buried deep in the federal civil service payrolls,” he said.
Magu also said that the commission had established a procurement
fraud unit to handle the increasing number of petitions relating to
violations of the public procurement laws.
He advised civil servants to avoid any acts in breach of public
procurement, warning that violators risked terms of imprisonment and
dismissal from service.
“In regard to procurement frauds, there has been a sharp rise in the
number of petitions coming to the commission relating to violations of
the Public Procurement Act 2007.
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