baby, said to hold a diploma,
was on the Nigerian
government payroll, officials
have discovered, exposing the
levels to which corruption runs
country.
The name of the infant was
recently found on the payment
voucher of a local government
council in northern Nigeria
during an exercise to fish out
ghost employees from a bloated
workforce, Garba Gajam, justice
commissioner for Zamfara State
told AFP late Wednesday.
"In the on-going verification
exercise of the payrolls … in the
state we discovered that a
month-old baby was among the
employees of one local
government who is paid a
salary," Gajam said.
"What is even more astonishing
is that it was indicated in the
payroll that the infant holds an
ordinary national diploma," said
Gajam, revealing that the
discovery is a "widespread trend
in the local government service
where senior officials stuff
payrolls with the names of their
wives and children".
In August the name of a five-
month-old baby was found on
the payroll of another local
municipality, prompting an
investigation.
"And we have been receiving
amazing revelations which point
to the rot and abysmal level of
corruption at the local
government level," Gajam said.
Perpetrators will be have to
refund the siphoned funds and
face prosecution for
misappropriating public funds.
Source: vanguardngr.com
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