Over 1,500 workers were caught by the federal government’s verification committee presenting false letters of employment.
Folashade Yemi-Esan, the Federation’s Head of Civil Service, made the announcement during the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission’s ‘National Policy Dialogue on Entrenching Transparency in Public Office Recruitment in Nigeria’ in Abuja.
The Federal Government, according to Yemi-Esan, has stopped the salaries of 3,000 federal officials who failed to appear for verification.
She said the verification exercise is to eradicate fake and illegal recruitment in government agencies.
“Sometimes in March of 2021, this office informed the ICPC that there were quite a number of fake letters of appointments circulating in the ministries,” the civil service chief said.
“At that particular time, we discovered that in just one ministry alone, there were over a thousand individuals bearing fake letters of appointments. And they were already enrolled on the payroll.
“The Office of the Head of Service received another report, this time from the Federal Civil Service Commission itself, forwarding names of over 500 persons in various MDAs that possess fake letters of appointments.”