The lawmakers observed that some agencies of the governor, in collaboration with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, have devised methods to insert ghost workers and get payments through back-door channels.
The House of Representatives has set up an Ad hoc to investigate alleged malfeasance in managing the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System .
He said that recruitment into public service has historically been a channel through which the federal government makes social interventions, stabilise society, reduces poverty and increases its access to all parts of Nigeria. “Public institutions have since stopped the process of advertising for jobs and vacancies. Even in the few instances where adverts are published, the slots are already commoditised and available for the highest bidders.
Mr Oke said that between the 1960s and 1990s, Nigeria boasted of one of the best crops of public servants in the world and service delivery was at the highest level of professionalism. The lawmaker alleged that some agencies of the governor, in collusion with the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, have devised methods to insert ghost workers and get payments through back-door channels.
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