Children as young as eight are being paid teaching salaries in Nigeria, the state has discovered as part of a nation-wide attempt to cut down on ghost workers from its payroll.
A total of 24,000 salaries were cut, with an estimated monthly saving of £8m, after an audit of around 312,000 civil servants.
It revealed that workers’ identifications and bank account details did not correlate and some people were receiving wages from multiple sources.
The purge is part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s election pledge to cut down on state profligacy and corruption which has cost the Nigerian economy billions of pounds over many years. The problem has become increasingly pressing given the drop in the price of oil, its main export.
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