The looming deadline for MDAs to join IPPIS

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, has informed all federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) who have not yet enrolled their staff on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) to do so without further delay.

She said that President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that staff of federal MDAs not captured on the automated payroll system will not be paid their salaries at the end of this month, that is, October 2019, and all subsequent months, until they are enrolled.

It may be recalled that the IPPIS project took off in April 2007 with the main aims of paying staff accurately and on time within statutory and contractual regulations. It is also designed to provide a payroll service that is customer focused.

Other aims of IPPIS include detecting and removal of ghost workers from the Federal Payroll.

Indeed, the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF), Alhaji Ahmed Idris, has disclosed that the Federal Government was saved N274 billion through the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (PPIS) platform.

The Accountant-General of the Federation said the N274 billion was the cumulative savings achieved on IPPIS Platform between 2017 and 2018, that is, within just two years.

The deadline set by President Muhammadu Buhari as conveyed to the MDAs that have not enrolled their staff on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System is strongly justified.

The concerned MDAs should comply by immediately enrolling their staff on the IPPIS platform. Doing so will shield their staff from the unpleasant consequences of delayed salaries. And more important for all Nigerians, it will save the country more billions of Naira by blocking illegal payments to ghost workers.

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