By Eniola Enoch, Kware
1,000 ghost workers on payroll have been uncovered by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board.
This was disclosed during a media briefing on Thursday by the Head of the Ilorin zonal office of the commission, Isyaku Sharu. He said following the discovery, a Permanent Secretary and a director in the services of the Kwara State Government had been arrested and were being detained over the employment scam.
“The EFCC in the zone has uncovered about 1,000 ‘ghost’ workers smuggled onto the payroll of the Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board,” he said.
In addition, the anti-graft agency made additional recovery of N138m from suspected treasury looters in the state, He said,
Sharu stated, “The EFCC in the zone has also uncovered the diversion of about N750m from the Light Up Kwara Project in which about N72m was used to purchase a property in the Guzape area of Abuja.
“It also secured the interim forfeiture of a residential building located at No. 17 and 27A McDonald Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, with a conservative value of N2bn belonging to a top politician, and another residential building located at No. 10 and 11 AbdulKadir Street, GRA, Ilorin, belonging to the same politician, with a conservative value of N1.5bn.”