Sabitu Adams, a Nigerian currently based in the UK, has confessed to receiving his monthly salary from the government agency he worked for back home...READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
Adams, not his real name, revealed that he worked as a junior officer in an interview with the BBC.
He disclosed that he currently works as a taxi driver in the UK and has not yet resigned from his job in Nigeria.
The interview comes after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu directed that all civil servants still receiving their salaries despite relocating abroad must be refunded.
Tinubu 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.
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 reveals numbers representing discovered ghost workers and money saved.
But no one is ever announced to have been arrested or prosecuted.
