‘I’ve been getting salary two years after leaving Fed civil service’

who relocated to the United Kingdom has reportedly admitted drawing salary two years after his relocation.

The Nigerian, identified Sabitu Adams , said he gets paid each month as a junior official at a government agency in Nigeria.Adams is one of the thousands of ghost workers – a rampant issue in the civil service. Each year, the government carries out biometric verifications and reels out numbers representing discovered ghost workers, and money saved. But no one is ever announced to have been arrested or prosecuted.

Last week, President Bola Tinubu directed that all civil servants drawing salaries from the government after relocating abroad should be made to refund the money. Tinubu also ordered that the culprits’ supervisors and departmental heads be punished for aiding and abetting the fraud while they were in charge.Adams, whose name was allegedly changed by a BBC report to protect his identity,aid he was not worried about the president’s directives because he earns better as a taxi driver in the UK.

“When I heard about the president’s directive, I smiled because I know I am doing better here – and not worried,” the 36-year-old said.Adams was quoted as saying he has an arrangement with his boss in Nigeria who is a ‘relative’.

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