Babatunji Wusu –
On Wednesday, the Federal Government disclosed the names of government servants who will no longer be paid beginning on Friday.
The Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) user manual stated that employees who could not be confirmed would be removed from the list on Friday.
This caution was issued in a statement made on Wednesday by Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF).
In a statement signed by Mohammed Ahmed, the Director of Communications in her office, it was stated that officers who did not participate in the previous verifications would benefit from the two-week exercise, which would conclude on Friday, October 27, 2023.
He remembered that the Federal Government started using the IPPIS in 2007 to handle personnel records with transparency, accuracy, safety, and reliability while also reducing needless overages in personnel expenditures.
According to the statement, “The task of cleaning up the payroll record fell to the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) in 2013,” which is the repository for official documents and data about all public employees.
“The Office, utilizing technology, launched a verification portal in April 2017 and instructed all employees to update their records online. The office aggressively used traditional, social, and official media for exposure and sensitization. In order to provide all officers time to update their records, the initial three-month compliance period was extended to one year in May 2018 from the original three months. The initial stage was this.
The physical verification phase of the exercise began in 2018 as a follow-up to extensive statewide publicity and many pre-verification sensitization visits by IPPIS officials to Ministries and extra-ministerial Departments and Agencies (MDAs). In order to enable officers to conduct the physical verification in their states and avoid traveling to Abuja, 500 staff members from the OHCSF were trained and sent throughout the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT between 2018 and 2019 in well-coordinated phases.
“As a result, some of the negligent officers bombarded the OHCSF with requests to be granted one final chance to comply. For them to update their records, the gateway was kindly reopened from October 3–13, 2023.
The office was unable to send more employees to the states for the activity since it had already committed and used up all of the allocated monies. As a result, the officials were instructed to travel to Abuja for the physical verification process.
“Enough preparations were made to ensure a seamless exercise in the FCT’s designated zones, but the first two days of the exercise were chaotic due to the officers’ agitation and lack of discipline. This has been properly addressed, and things are moving along rather nicely for the two-week exercise, which is set to conclude on Friday, October 27, 2023.
The verification of all civil servants’ records, however, will be completed by the conclusion of the current exercise, and any officer whose record could not be validated will be removed from the government’s payroll.
