FG Begins Staff Audit
By Suleiman Bello
Federal Government has directed the conduct of the verification and revalidation of credentials and records of all personnel in the Federal Civil Service.
This was contained in a statement issued by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Bukar Goni Aji and signed by the Assistant Director, Media Relations in his office, Ahmed Manga.
The statement said the Head of Service gave the directive yesterday in his office, during an interactive session with officials and private sector stakeholders managing the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
Alhaji Goni also said that the exercise is being embarked upon in order to continuously update personnel data on the IPPIS platform and ensure that there is synergy between the payroll and personnel information of all federal civil servants.
He announced that the first phase of the exercise will commence on Monday, and will involve states in the South-West, South-East, South-South and North West zones of the federation.
The exercise according to him will commence in the remaining zones by August 2014.
He said the IPPIS is one of the tools in the transformation agenda of the Federal Government being used to create a centralised data base system for the Nigerian Public Service with a single, accurate source of employee information that will aid Government Manpower Planning and decision making.
Other objectives of the IPPIS Project according to him, include the automation and storage of personnel records to support monitoring of staff emolument; payment against budget; prevention of wastages and leakages by ensuring that staff remuneration is based on factually correct information; and to ensure the prompt payment of salaries directly to employees account with appropriate deductions and remittances of third party payments.