The Nigerian Federal Government has suspended the salaries of 331 Public Servants who have failed to update their records on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan (pictured) said the suspensions followed repeated requests for all employees to update their information on the IPPIS portal.
“However, despite all the circulars issued, some employees did not comply with the directives, and therefore could not participate in the physical verification exercise that was carried out between June 2018 and December, 2020,” Dr Yemi-Esan said.
“The excuse that some of the employees do not have sufficient understanding of the system to put in their details cannot be accepted after all this time. They could have obtained assistance from co-workers,” she said.
The IPPIS was launched in October 2006 as one of the Federal Government’s reform programs with the aim of improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the storage of personnel records, and administration of the monthly payroll.
As well as supporting confidence in staff emolument costs and budgeting, the IPPIS was seen as an efficient way of identifying and expelling large numbers of ‘ghost workers’ that in the past had been a drain on the country’s finances.
The pilot phase, financed by the World Bank, began in February 2006 at the Bureau of Public Service Reforms.
The project went live in April 2007.
Abuja, 14 June 2021
