He said as a result of the biometric audit of 36 MDAs, the Federal Ministry of Finance fished out the names of former employees of the Federal Government who were either retired or dead but were still receiving salaries, thus adding to the cost of governance in the country.It turns out that 38% of the employees at the 36 MDAs didn't exist.
Corruption on this scale is devastating. First, it represents radical over-taxation of a population that cannot be considered rich. Second, the beneficiaries of these schemes come to see the maintenance of the fraud rather than fulfilling the stated goals of the bureaucracy as their real job.
The ROI of these biometric fraud-cutting efforts isn't just measured in money, either. Though they save a lot of money, you can't put a price on decent governance.
Kudos to Nigeria for taking on one of the most intractable causes of human misery.
