FG to Delist Workers Not Verified on IPPIS

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja

The Federal Government has said that civil servants whose record cannot be verified on Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) after the ongoing verification exercise, which ends on October 27, will be delisted from its payroll.

The Director Communications, Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF), Mohammed Ahmed, disclosed this Wednesday in a statement.

He said the service granted a two-week verification after some errant officers, who failed to participate in the exercise, inundated the OHCSF with pleas for last opportunity to comply after the IPPIS portal was shut down.

He said having committed substantial financial and human resources over a period of seven years to verify the records of all civil servants on the IPPIS platform, the Office of the Head of Service was left with no option than to suspend the salaries of those who failed to participate in the exercise with effect from September 2023.

The statement said that after the portal was reopened between October 3 and 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.

However, it said after arrangements were put in place for a smooth exercise in designated areas of the FCT, 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.

“It should be noted that the aforementioned officers are the architects of their inconveniences for not being compliant with official directives. However, the verification of records of all civil servants will be finalised at the end of the ongoing exercise and any officer whose record could not be verified will be delisted from the payroll of government,” the statement said.

The Federal Government commenced the implementation of the IPPIS in 2007 with a view to attaining transparency, accuracy, safety and reliability in the management of personnel records, while also curbing ghost workers syndrome and leakages through personnel cost.