Biometric Time and Attendance Systems help combat payroll fraud
Biometric Time and Attendance system can help combat the phenomenon of payroll fraud and “ghost” employees which has recorded significant growth in numerous countries around the world. While some governments simply ignore it or do very little to combat it, others, such as the one in Nigeria, decide to implement solid measuresin order to prevent this sort of fraudulent activity.
The Nigerian government has recently identified and removed more than 23,000 non-existent or ‘ghost’ workers from its state payroll by auditing biometric data and bank verification numbers (BVN) to identify holders of bank accounts into which salaries were being paid, a news source has revealed.
Of the 312,000 public servants that were audited, 23,306, or 7% were found to have received their salary unlawfully or did not even exist. Some even received payments from several sources at the same time.
A country-wide biometric identification system was implemented for 23 Nigerian banks in 2014
and for the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 2015, verifying the identity of bank customers with fingerprints and facial recognition before they open or access a bank account. Under this system, every customer receives a bank verification number.
According to Festus Akanbi, special adviser to Nigeria’s finance minister Kemi Adeosun, removing the nonexistent workers from the government payroll saves 2.29 billion naira ($11.5 million USD) a month.
Tensor Biometric Time and Attendance Systems – the suppliers of choice for when irrefutable proof of attendance is required
Tensor plc has an extensive level of experience in the field of biometric time and attendance systems, so it can help you install the most secure and reliable biometrics equipment, while in the same time keeping within your set budget for this task.
We offer a range of biometric time and attendance systems designed specifically for those who want peace-of-mind, certainty and the assurance that only the right people can gain access to your sensitive or dangerous areas. Furthermore, our biometric readers will not store full scanned images of the users’ fingerprints, but rather biometric data – specific information regarding one’s biometric features.
These biometric time and attendance systems come packed in a very elegant and stylish case, while in the same time being extremely easy to use. Plus, they’re very easy to interconnect with our proximity card access scanners, allowing users to mix fingerprint reading and non-fingerprint reading scanners on the same security network.
If you’d like to find out more about the Biometrics access control solutions supplied by Tensor, just contact our dedicated product team or Book a Demo, our representatives will be more than happy to answer any questions or queries you might have.
