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    UK Cab Driver Reveals He’s Still Getting Paid By Nigerian Government

    By Festus AdeloyeJuly 1, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Despite leaving Nigeria for the UK two years ago, Sabitu Adams gets paid each month as a junior official at a government agency back home.

    Adams, who now works as a taxi driver in the UK, had his name changed by a BBC report to protect his identity.

    The taxi driver has yet to resign from his job in Nigeria.

    Adams is one of the thousands of ghost workers, a rampant issue in the Nigerian civil service.
    Each year, the government carries out biometric verifications and reels out numbers representing discovered ghost workers, and money saved.

    But no one is ever announced to have been arrested or prosecuted.

    Last week, President Bola Tinubu directed that all civil servants drawing salaries from the government after relocating abroad should be made to refund the money.

    Tinubu also ordered that the culprits’ supervisors and department heads be punished for aiding and abetting the fraud while they were in charge.

    Adams told the BBC that he was not worried about the president’s directives because he earned better as a taxi driver in the UK.

    “When I heard about the president’s directive, I smiled because I know I am doing better here – and not worried,” the 36-year-old said.

    The cab driver said he did not resign “in case I choose to go back to my job after a few years”.
    Adams was quoted as saying he had an arrangement with his boss in Nigeria who is a “relative”.

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