Japa Since 2022: Outrage As UK Cab Driver Confirms Still Being Paid By FG 2 Years After Relocation

A male Nigerian civil servant who left the country for the United Kingdom in 2022 has revealed that he still receives his monthly salary despite not showing up at work. The 36-year-old UK taxi driver, who will be referred to as Daniel due to the sensitivity of the matter, told the BBC as reported on Sunday that he receives N150,000 monthly from his place of work in Nigeria, all thanks to a mutual understanding with his boss.
Recently, the Federal Government vowed a crackdown on Nigerian government workers who had relocated abroad but still received salaries. On Saturday, June 22, 2024, President Bola Tinubu, while expressing dismay at the revelations by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation regarding employees who had relocated abroad while drawing salaries without formally resigning, ordered that the “culprits must be made to refund the money they have fraudulently collected.”
Tinubu said, “Their supervisors and department heads must also be punished for aiding and abetting the fraud under their watch,” adding that his administration would ensure “those responsible are held accountable and restitution is made.” Non-government workers have continued to enjoy free money as they get paid without being enlisted in the nation’s civil service.
In some other cases, people who have either quit their government jobs or relocated overseas still receive the tranche. However, Daniel, a junior official at a government agency, was unbothered by the President’s directive, citing that what he currently earns in the UK is higher than the salary he gets from the government.
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