Federal Government of Nigeria has suspended the salaries of 331 civil servants.
Gatekeepers News reports that this action was taken because the civil servant involved allegedly failed to comply with the rules of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) platform.
The Federal Government introduced the IPPIS in 2006 to weed ghost workers from the civil service and automate salary payment for transparent and accountability in public expenditure.
Head of service of the federation, Folasade Yemi-Ẹsan, disclosed the salary suspension in a circular issued on June 9,
Sh said that the affected civil servants failed to participate in the physical verification exercise conducted for ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) between June 2018 and December 2020.
She enjoined the affected workers to visit the office of the director in charge of the verification exercise to get more information and update their records.
In 2017, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had prosecuted ‘ghost workers’ who received N9.7m salary in three years.
In February, the Federal Government set new guidelines to check employment fraud on the IPPIS platform.
