By Ayodele Oni
Some categories of workers on the Federal Government payroll may not receive salaries henceforth, following their refusal to abide by laid down guidelines on payment of salaries.
The Federal Government has decided to suspend the payment of salaries of 331 civil servants cutting across all ministries, departments and agencies over their failure to update their records on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, (IPPIS).
The Federal Government explained that it decided to stop salaries of the affected workers due to their failure to enrol into the IPPIS, despite repeated directives to do so.
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, announced the suspension order in a circular signed on her behalf by the Permanent Secretary (Career Management Officer), Mamman Mahmuda.
The circular dated June 10, 2021 was addressed to all Permanent Secretaries, the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Auditor-General of the Federation.
It was titled, ‘Suspension of salaries of employees of core Ministries, Departments and Agencies that have not been verified on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System’s Human Resource Module Platform.’
It read “You may wish to note that the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation had issued various circulars requesting employees of MDAs to carry out an online records update on the IPPIS verification portal as a pre-condition for the roll-out of the Human Resource module.
“Consequently, the verification portal was opened from April 20, 2017 to May 23, 2018 in order to enable employees carry out the online records update.
“Arising from this, the HR module of IPPS is fully implemented and all the core MDAs are now live on the IPPIS platform.
“However, despite all the circulars issued, some employees in the core-MDAs did not comply with the directives, and therefore could not participate in the physical verification exercise that was caried out between June 2018 and December, 2020 due to the fact that their records were not found on the verification portal.”
Also affected by the salaries stoppage are defaulters at the Federal Civil Service Commission, National Sports Commission, and Police Service Commission.
Others are the Federal Government Colleges in Kwali, Abuja; Odogbolu; Benin and Shagamu.
