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A civil servants, Sabitu Adams, who left Nigeria for the UK two years ago, has been quietly receiving a monthly salary as a junior official from a Nigerian government agency.
Eko Hot Blog reports that this was revealed in a BBC report on Sunday.
Now driving a taxi in the UK, Adams’s identity was altered by the report for his protection.
The taxi driver has yet to resign from his job in Nigeria as at the time of filing this report.
Adams is one of the thousands of ghost workers, a rampant issue in the Nigerian civil service.
Each year, the government carries out biometric verifications and reels out numbers representing discovered ghost workers, and money saved.
However, no one is ever announced to have been arrested or prosecuted.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu had last week directed that all civil servants drawing salaries from the government after relocating abroad should be made to refund the money.
President Bola Tinubu
The President also ordered that the culprits’ supervisors and department heads be punished for aiding and abetting the fraud while they were in charge.
Adams told the BBC that he was not worried about the president’s directives because he earned 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.
The cab driver said he did not resign “in case I choose to go back to my job after a few years”.
Adams was quoted as saying he had an arrangement with his boss in Nigeria who is a “relative”.
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