N6.4bn Monthly Fraud Uncovered On FG Payroll

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The Presidential Initiative on Continuous Audit found discrepancies in the payroll of the Federal Government’s Ministries, Agencies and Departments to the tune of N6.4 billion monthly, the Head of the Continuous Audit Team, Mr Mohammed Dikwa, said yesterday.

Dikwa told newsmen in Kano on the sideline of the two-day National Revenue Retreat, organised by the Ministry of Finance that the amount was the true state of their findings as at June 30, 2016.

He said the federal government has thus been saved from paying that amount monthly.

President Muhammadu Buhari had set up the Continuous Audit Team to look into the finance of Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies to address the issue of ghost workers, over payment of allowances, fraud and embezzlement in MDAs.

Dikwa said: ”The Continuous Audit Team plans to conduct regular checks on the control and risk assessment of MDAs. We look at the records that are being kept to ensure transparency and accountability of the financial transactions carried over time.

“In terms of ghost workers, we have found about 43,000 ghost workers so far and as at May 30, we had N4.2 billion that is saved on a monthly basis.

“But as at June 30, we were able to make more recoveries of N2.2 billion which has led to an additional savings of N6.4 billion monthly.”

Dikwa said that more savings would be made once the team succeeded in capturing all the Federal Government’s MDA into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

He said: “The IPPIS platform is only having 20 per cent of the MDAs of the Federal Government on board. This means that about 80 per cent of MDAs are still outside the IPPIS platform.

“And it is important that they are all captured because our system of approach in conducting the continuous audit …Read More

Source:: The Nation Newspaper