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LAGOS, Nigeria — A newborn baby in Nigeria got added to a government payroll, earning about $150 for the past two or three years, a discovery indicative of the widespread corruption starving the oil-rich West African nation of much needed funds, authorities said Friday.
The baby was one of many so-called ghost workers found to be getting salaries without performing a job, said Garba Gajam, attorney general of Zamfara state in Nigeria’s arid and impoverished northwest.
The employee was listed as being 1-month-old in government records, but Gajam said the child’s father started collecting the salary before the baby was born. Records also show that the baby has a diploma.
