EACC Begins Nationwide Salary Crackdown on Gov’t Employees
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has disclosed plans to recover all the funds unscrupulous individuals earned in salaries using fake certificates.
According to Bishop David Oginde, the EACC chairman, several people with fake certificates have already been taken to court and the commission had recovered monies they were paid during the entire period they worked.
Some of the properties, which the individuals acquired during the period they worked, were also seized.
Oginde stated,”We’re discovering many people have gotten jobs in the public and private sector using fake certificates. Several of them have been taken to court and we have recovered the monies they were paid during the time they served under those certificates.”
The chairman observed that some people in the public sector were paid to the tune of hundreds of millions as a result of using a fake certificate to get a high-paying job.
He added, “Investigating corruption, especially big corruption, is a very expensive exercise. Many of the big corruption have international connections so you find that money that is stolen locally was stashed in another country and for you to investigate you require officers to travel to those nations and that is very expensive. The budget that we are given does not enable us to do our work to the best of our ability.”
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