Government improves on salary payment technique
Cases of ghost
workers and delayed salaries will no longer occur after the completion
of the second phase of the Integrated payroll and personnel Information
System (IPPIS), The acting Accountant General of the Federation,
Aderemi Ogunsanya said this on Monday. IPPIS which is an ICT based
system is designed by the federal government to improve the
effectiveness and efficiency in the storage of personal records and
administration of monthly payroll in a way to enhance confidence in
staff emolument costs and budgeting.
Mr Ogunsanya had
said on Monday in Abuja at the flagging off of phase two Sensitisation
programme and Management Workshop of IPPIS that workers on the new
system will receive their salaries on or before 20th of every month
wherever they are located in the Country.
He also said that
out of the 55,000 licenses that were approved at the inception of the
project for the seven Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs); only
23,000 licenses were utilised leaving 22,000 licenses unused.
The project first came up in 2007 and was financed by a World Bank facility of 4.9 US million US dollars.
He called on those
MDAs that have not joined to do so as the government will now base its
budgeting on actual employees and not estimation any longer. The Head
of the Civil Service of the Federation, Afolabi Oladapo, also at the
event said that the IPPIS will provide for a better and well paid Civil
Service devoid of plenty paper work. He asked the Permanent Secretaries
to ensure that MDAs join the IPPIS project by driving it.
Former Head of
Service, Steve Oronsaye admitted the new technological means has been a
transformation in the Service and that the project will help ensure
that data is worked out to capture the real strength of the workforce
of the country.
He prays that the project turns successful describing it as a key
force in the reform agenda in the Civil Service. Out of the 426,000
estimated staff excluding the army, police and other paramilitary
organisations, only 14 percent, representing 58,000 are on IPPIS
project.
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