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| Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, Finance Minister |
The Minister stated this during a 2016 budget defence session
at the National Assembly adding that all the culprits which she said includes
banks that facilitated the fake transactions would be handed over to the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for prosecution in the court of
law. In her remarks, she applauded the eventual introduction of the BVN stating
that it has immensely assisted in checkmating fraud in the civil service.
“What the IPPIS-BVN registration has shown us has been a real
revelation. We will try as much as possible to conclude that investigation
within 30 days so that innocent people do not suffer, but we really need to
clean our payroll.
“As we speak now, we have about 23,000 that we need to
investigate. Those whom either the BVN
account is linked to multiple payment or the name on the BVN account not
consistent with the name on our payroll.
“If we are able to get everybody onto the BVN platform, we
will be able to save a considerable amount of personnel cost. Not only will we
remove those people from our payroll, but we will also be going after the
banks involved to collect our money,” she said.
However, she noted that her duty is to dislodge the
arrangements from the payroll and the forward the reports to the security
agencies for necessary actions.
“My job is to get them off our payroll, what happens from there
on goes to the investigative agencies; we will pass our files onto them and
they will take a decision as to what sanctions they will take,” Adeosun
clarified.
Responding, the Chairman of the Senate committee on Finance,
Senator John Eno vehemently frowned at the development and urged the minister
to ensure that the culprits are not only removed from the payroll but made to
face the wrath of the law.
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