3,000 Ghost Police Discorvered In Police Pensions Scheme

The Director-General of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) Nellie Mayshak, has revealed that  her directorate has doscorvered over 3,000 ghost pensioners in the Nigerian Police pension scheme.



According to her, of the 18,000 police pensioners registered in the country, they have found out only 15,000 where genuine. " When PTAD was first given the police pensions payroll, it contained 18,000 pensioners, which we thought were all genuine. But when we went around the states to verify, we disccorvered that there were 15,000 pensioners in the Police" She said.

Through this verification exercise the PTAD has saved the Federal Government over N100 million  monthly that was been paid to non-existent pensioners.