Reps Investigates Alleged IPPIS Mismanagement

By Adedapo Adesanya

The Home of Representatives is investigating alleged misconduct within the administration of the Built-in Payroll and Personnel Data System (IPPIS).

The decrease chamber arrange a committee mandated to analyze alleged employment racketeering and alleged mismanagement of personnel recruitment throughout companies of presidency.

This adopted the unanimous adoption of a movement by Mr Wole Oke at plenary on Wednesday.

Shifting the movement, Mr Oke stated that the federal authorities has quite a few companies which and which characterize the most important employers of labour in Nigeria.

Mr Oke stated that the overhead of public establishments constitutes a serious element of the finances of the federal authorities of Nigeria.

In accordance with him, recruitment into public service has traditionally been a channel via which the federal authorities makes social interventions, stabilises society, reduces poverty and will increase its entry to all components of Nigeria.

The lawmaker underscored the essence and the significance of managing the method of recruitment and fee of civil servants and public officers;

“However this near-sacred function being performed by the federal authorities, the method of recruiting and employment into the civil service has turn out to be one that’s fraught with endemic corruption.

“Public establishments have since stopped the method of promoting for jobs and vacancies. Even within the few situations the place adverts are printed, the slots are already commoditised and out there for the best bidders.

“In different phrases, most public establishments now promote employment positions, however the qualification of the applicant and the power of the applicant to carry out optimally on the job.

“This poses a serious threat and has certainly constituted itself right into a channel for the underperformance of the Nigerian public service,” he stated.

Mr Oke defined that between the Sixties to Nineties, Nigeria boasted of top-of-the-line crops of public servants on the planet and repair supply was on the highest degree of professionalism.

In accordance with him, this example has since modified, largely due to the strategy of recruitment and the standard of recruitment into these public establishments, which is pushed by fraud, abuses, corruption and pecuniary concerns.

Mr Oke stated that the federal authorities had tried to handle different abuses inside the system, notably the menace of ghost staff, which necessitated the introduction of the IPPIS to assist fish out the big variety of ghost staff.

The lawmaker alleged that some companies of presidency, in collusion with the Workplace of the Accountant Common of the Federation and the Ministry of Finance, Funds and Nationwide Planning, have devised strategies to insert ghost staff and get funds via back-door channels.

“They’ve additionally crafted strategies which are getting used to bypass the BVN know-how. This state of affairs is costing the Federal Authorities billions of Naira month-to-month in wage funds to ghost staff and in unlawful funds to a number of civil servants throughout cadres.

“Fearful that as issues stand now, the Federal Authorities will not be getting worth for cash, moderately it’s dropping each in high quality, amount and substance throughout recruitment and fee of personnel.

“Much more worrisome is that some employees members which were legitimately employed haven’t acquired salaries for months and years, although they have been recruited legally into the Federal Civil Service.

“Involved that if pressing steps should not taken to analyze these challenges, the morale of most civil servants shall be utterly dampened.

“The federal authorities will proceed to lose billions in month-to-month funds to ghost staff and unlawful funds, and the nation will proceed to be serviced by unqualified staff trooping into numerous sectors inside the Federal Civil Service,” he stated.

In his ruling, the Deputy Speaker of the home, Mr Benjamin Kalu, mandated the committee to analyze the varied companies of presidency and tertiary establishments and report again inside 4 weeks for additional legislative motion.

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