“We recovered over N20bn paid to ‘ghost workers’ as pensions in 2024”- ICPC

 

● Somebody put his wife, son, in-laws on payroll

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) said it recovered N20 billion paid to ghost workers as pensions in 2024.

Musa Aliyu, chairman of the commission, spoke on Wednesday at a media parley with editors in Abuja.

Aliyu said being proactive had enabled the anti-graft agency to stem corruption in the country.

“In 2024, we recovered over N20 billion ghost workers pensions, whereby we were able to track and recover this amount of money, and also we identified people inserting ghost workers into the system,” he said.

He added: “We even discovered that somebody put his wife, his son, and his in-laws on the payroll.

“So, these are some of the challenges that we are trying to see that we tackle and don’t allow them to go on.”

The ICPC chairman also said the commission prevented the theft of N50 billion from a particular ministry.

“In 2023, there is a particular ministry where we restrained over N50 billion from being taken away because of our proactiveness,” he said.