Speaking on a tv program with Channels tv, a former director with the Federal Civil Service; Mr Gabriel Omohinmi has revealed that the recent investigation that discovered 45,000 ghost workers in the Federal Government’s payroll is just a drop in the system...in his words, he said: "if a thorough investigation is conducted...there are about 2-3million ghost workers in the civil service...the audit that revealed the 45,000 ghost workers was only carried out on 251 Ministries and Department and Agencies (MDAs). We still have 321 MDAs that have not yet being touched...It is disheartening. In some agencies, you will find a mother, a cousin, a nephew, a son, a daughter, all loaded in the same agency posted to various departments. If you have cause to complain about the person who brought them in, they go home and meet the person and the following morning, queries start flying all about….so you dare not protest.”
He added that the clique in the system frustrates any iota of activism of union members. In his exact words: “Once they see that you are active, they throw you to Siberia where one cannot operate...I don’t know how to describe what is happening in the federal service. It is terrible… a lot of unspent money is shared amongst themselves at the end of the year.”
He concluded by advising that, “The time of public service is gone…..we need to get a new structure in place.”
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