Facts emerging from an ongoing investigation into the workforce of the Niger State government have revealed how civil servants have been diverting government funds and collecting inflated salaries.
For instance, a source from Tibbot Consulting, the firm conducting the verification exercise, disclosed that a messenger at the Ministry of Finance earns N265,000 monthly while a cleaner at General Hospital Minna goes home with N375,000 monthly.
Also, not less than three Permanent Secretaries were found to be taking home about N1.3m monthly whereas they are supposed to earn between N400,000 and N500,000 per month.
Ironically, said the source, "some of the said permanent secretaries are members of the committee set up by the government to guide the consultants in the ongoing verification exercise.”
Similarly, at the Veterinary Department in the Ministry of Agriculture a herdsman whose job is taking cattle for grazing takes home N375,000 whereas his actual salary is N23,000 monthly.
Further investigation revealed that the junior workers did not actually take home the inflated salaries but were rather used as conduits to siphon public funds by top government officials.
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