Full-time Okada rider smuggled into govt payroll, receives salary for 11 years
A full-time Okada rider, Tanimu Ndanusa, who can barely speak English has been on the payroll of the Niger state government since 2009, received all entitlements and bonuses as and when due, DAILY TIMES gathered.
He has received promotion several times, from level 10 to 14, without writing promotion examinations.
He was smuggled into the government payroll by his brother, Mohammed, a senior civil servant in the state ministry of health.
They met their waterloo on Tuesday when Mohammed asked his brother to present himself for a physical verification exercise for civil servants in the state.
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Tanimu had no credentials to show nor was he able to speak appropriately as demanded of his job. The committee in charge of the exercise handed him over to the police for further questioning.
Mohammed was said to have confessed to the fraud and he was arrested alongside his brother.
Speaking on the development, Adamu Usman, commissioner of police, said the two brothers will be charged to court when investigation is concluded on the matter.
In June, the Niger state government discovered monthly payment of over ₦672 million as salaries to ghost workers in the state civil service.
Ibrahim Panti, commissioner for works and infrastructural development, said over 30 percent of the workers did not turn up for the physical screening exercise.
He said some of those who turned up were discovered to have fake certificates or had retired already.
