The Federal Government has threatened to expunge unverified civil servants from its payroll after the ongoing Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information, IPPIS verification exercise by Friday, 0ctober 27, 2023.
Mr Mohammed Ahmed, the Director of Communication, office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.
According to Ahmed, the office of the HOCSF, being the repository of official records and information on all public servants, was saddled with the responsibility of cleansing the record on the payroll system.
He explained that the office of the HOCSF had conducted a series of verification exercises, which some civil servants were unable to get captured.
Consequently, the director explained that some of the erring officers besieged the office of the HOCSF with pleas to be given the last opportunity to comply.
He said the grace window was granted for October 3 to 13 for civil servants to update their records.
“Driven by the government’s quest to curb ghost workers syndrome and block leakages through personnel cost, the implementation of IPPIS commenced with the Payroll module rather than the Human Resource component.”
He explained that the office of the HOCSF had conducted a series of verification exercises, which some civil servants were unable to get captured.
“The portal was, therefore, magnanimously reopened from October 3 to 13 for them to update their records. The officers were then asked to come to Abuja for the physical verification exercise as the office had already committed and exhausted the budgeted funds and was unable to deploy staff to the states for the exercise.
“However, the verification of records of all civil servants will be finalized at the end of the ongoing exercise. And any officer whose record could not be verified will be delisted from the payroll of the government at the end of the two-week exercise on Friday, October 27,” he explained.
The federal government had in September delisted over 17,000 government employees from the IPPIS platform for failing to comply with verification exercises spanning over five years before an additional two-week grace was granted for the unverified officers.
Kemi Filani News recalls that the federal began the implementation of the IPPIS in 2007 to attain transparency, accuracy, safety, and reliability in the management of Personnel Records.