The minister of finance and national planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed has said that federal government had succeeded in flushing out 70,000 ghost workers from its payroll.
Ahmed who disclosed this yesterday in Kano at a retreat organised by the office of the accountant general of the federation for federal directors said the feat was achieved courtesy of the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel System (IPPS).
“President (Muhammadu) Buhari has shown highest level of financial commitment in ensuring deepest financial prudent and management and the expectations is for all to give him maximum support for the nation to achieve more financial management.
“IPPS system is eliminating ghost workers and very soon the nation would be free of ghost workers and all criminal tendencies attributed to financial management,” she said.
She also disclosed that that as the country fully implements the IPPS financial system in all the federal government ministries, departments and agencies, not less than 55 per cent of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) members had fully complied and registered.
She encouraged ASUU members who were yet to register and comply with the IPPS system to do so in order to get their February pay.
