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<\/p>\nA statement issued by EFCC Spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, quoted the commission\u2019s Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu, as saying this while delivering a lecture on Thursday at the National Defence College (NDC) in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Magu, while commending the introduction of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) into salary payment said, \u201cThe involvement of the EFCC in tackling the scourge of ghost workers in the civil service has led to a redemption of over N4.5 billion naira monthly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe EFCC has been engaged in eradicating \u2018ghost workers\u2019 from the federal government\u2019s payroll which has resulted in saving as much as N4.5 billion naira monthly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Bank Verification Number (BVN) has been an effective tool in carrying out investigations effectively, as it has curtailed the opening of fake bank accounts by fraudulent individuals.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only gateway to development is through fighting corruption.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Nigeria breaks away from corrupt practices in government businesses and in the private sector, we will transform into a model state overnight,\u201dNAN quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n
He added that 70 per cent of it was achieved between 2016 and September 2019 under his watch.<\/p>\n
The EFCC, boss, therefore, called for more collaboration among security and law enforcement agencies through the National Anti-Corruption Strategy aimed to bring about coherence and synergy among security agencies in the country.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said its intervention had assisted to save N4.5 billion monthly, lost to \u2018ghost workers\u2019 on the federal government\u2019s payroll. A statement issued by EFCC Spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, quoted the commission\u2019s Acting Chairman, Mr Ibrahim Magu, as saying this while delivering a lecture on Thursday at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":129674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,866,1460],"class_list":["post-159544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-efcc","tag-ibrahim-magu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}