How Borno civil servants use multiple ATM cards to defraud state

The Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima has revealed how senior civil servants in the state use multiple ATM cards to earn more salaries every month.

The governor said the fraudulent workers mobilised people to pose as civil servants and open salary accounts.

The governor said this while speaking to journalists on the ongoing salary verification controversy that has denied workers July salary.

The respective ATM cards for the accounts were thereafter transferred the top officials who used them for monthly withdrawals.

“These crop of senior civil servants would own dozens of such ATMs with which they use to collect salaries on behalf of these ghost workers,” the governor said.

“We have issued a warning to the banks that we are going to withdraw our money from their banks if they continue be accessories to these crimes of ghost workers.

“We have been able to uncover how some civil servants would give some persons just N2000 to open accounts as civil servants and bring the ATM to them. Some have up to 40 of such ATM cards for salary accounts with them.

“Now that the banks are helping us to expose the criminals, we have warned that any of them that collude with any top shot in the civil servant will have the full weight to the laws descending on them and we are going to delist them from the list of banks from our service.”