Federal Government has said civil servants not captured in the extended last phase of Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS verification exercise will be delisted from payroll.
While decrying the reluctance of some civil servants to join in the verification exercise which commenced 2007, the federal government said the extension period of two weeks which ends Friday, October 27, will be the last, urging those not captured to make use of this opportunity.
A statement on Wednesday signed by the Director of Communication in the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, OHCSF, M. A. Ahmed said series of opportunities had been extended to all federal civil servants to make themselves available for the verification, with some remaining defiant.
To this end, salaries of the erring civil servants were withheld in the month of September 2023, a situation that was met with appeal from the affected officials.
“Consequent upon this, some of the erring officers besieged the OHCSF with pleas to be given the last opportunity to comply. The portal was therefore, magnanimously reopened from October 3-13, 2023 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 unable to further deploy staff to the states for the exercise.
“Adequate arrangements were put in place for a smooth exercise in designated areas of the FCT, however, the officers’ impatience and lack of orderliness in the first two days made the exercise rowdy. This has been duly addressed and the two-week exercise, scheduled to end on Friday, October 27, 2023, is progressing very well”, the statement noted.
The exercise was introduced to curtail avoidable excesses in personnel costs arising from ghost workers syndrome and efforts to block leakages through personnel cost.
