Nigeria: '10,000 Ghost Workers On Customs Payroll'

18 May 2009

Abuja — The House of Representatives Committee on Customs and Excise has stumbled on another startling revelation in the ongoing probe of the inefficiency and alleged corruption in the system.

According to its finding, about 50 per cent of the 20,000 workforce in the Nigeria Customs Service under the regime of the immediate past Comptroller General of Customs, Jacob Buba Gyang, were ghost workers.

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