*Says Fake Workers Have Infiltrated IPPIS Platform
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The Federal Government has requested the suspension of 3,000 workers who did not show up during the 2013 to 2020 service-wide verification.
The Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan, announced this at a national policy dialogue on entrenching transparency in public service recruitments in Nigeria organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offices Commission (ICPC) yesterday in Abuja.
The HoSF said the government made the request through the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC).
“Following the outcome of the Service-Wide Verification Exercise for officers recruited from 2013 to 2020, the Federal Civil Service Commission has also requested the suspension of the salaries of over 3,000 officers across the MDAs who failed to appear for the exercise pending further clearance,” she said.
In 2019, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a report which said 32 per cent of Nigerians gave bribes to enable them secure employment into the public service.
The figure might comprise ghost workers and those with phony appointment.
Dr. Yemi-Esan, who said there are over 1,000 individuals with fake appointment letters in one ministry, added that the government was taking several steps to sanitise the system.
She said: “It would be recalled that in March, last year, the Office (of the HoSF) was informed of the detection of fake letters of employment presented in some ministries. For instance, in the past year, in one ministry alone, over 1,000 individuals bearing fake letters of appointment were detected.
“In the light of the aforementioned, it is disheartening to point out that the Office recently received a report from the Federal Civil Service Commission forwarding the names of over 500 persons in various MDAs in possession of fake letters of appointment and which are to be delisted from the IPPIS platform.”
The HoSF said her office had also taken decisive steps to nip in the bud the alarming sharp practices and acts of impunity being perpetrated on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel information system (IPPIS) as well as to purge the system of all infiltrations.
According to her, the Federal Government desires to block financial leakages from high personnel costs caused by ghost workers in the system.
The HoSF also said that by the end of March, 390,000 officers were enrolled on the IPPIS payroll.
According to her, the exercise will cover MDAs in all the geo-political zones of the country.
Yemi-Esan added that the exercise will end with a Mop-up Verification Exercise across the non-core MDAs in September 2022.
ICPC Chairman Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye decried the impact of indiscriminate recruitment on the Nigerian budget.
He said: “Indiscriminate recruitment has impacted the budget such that the government personnel wage bill has continued to rise geometrically, almost doubling between 2015 and 2022, from N1.832 trillion in 2015 to N3.494 trillion in 2022.”
The ICPC boss said the commission had received and was investigating almost 100 petitions on recruitment scams.
Interior Minister Rauf Aregbesola called for transparency in the recruitment process.
He advised MDAs to follow the transparency process in their recruitment to ensure a better nation.
Senate President Ahmed Lawan said the National Assembly had been and would always ensure that the best Nigerians are engaged in the civil service.
Lawan, who was represented by Senator Yusuf Yusuf, urged all to embrace transparency in any government dealings to avoid questions.
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