Federal Government commences IPPIS: its Effect on Health Worker's Salary

 Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that all Federal Ministries and Agencies (MDAs) which are funded through the budgetary provisions should be enrolled on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) project on or before December, 2013.

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji, stated that “235 Ministries, Departments and Agencies have fully enrolled in the IPPIS, scheme”. This we all to testify to, because virtually all federal health sectors in Lagos state has being enrolled and payment has event commenced directly from the scheme i.e from Abuja. 

Contrary to belief in some quarters, the Head of Service said that IPPIS is not about salaries alone, but encompasses all aspects of a worker’s career from start to the level of retirement. Its a reform initiative designed to undertake human resources management activities, from recruitment to separation, including payroll and pension process. It also  facilitate planning and budgeting, monitor monthly payment of staff emoluments against what was provided for in the budget, ensure database integrity and facilitate easy storage, updating and retrieval of personnel records for administrative and pension processes.

Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the federal government have so far recovered N34 billion out of the N58 billion traced to illegal accounts operated by some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and discovered 45000 ghost workers. This scheme should not fail. If with less than 15 percent uptake, the saving has been  N4 billion a year,  integration of all the services in the scheme would yield vast dividends. This should be enough motivation. It is time to do what it takes to prove the skeptics wrong.

Like every other program at its cradle stage, it is faced with an uphill task threatening its success. For instance, lots of complaints where reported from workers who received their June 2013 salaries from IPPIS. Some unforeseen deductions, delayed payment and non payment of some workers where reported.

                                                                                

To help address some of these issues, please report immediately to the account department of your work institution and if need be, the following contacts can be reached to address all complaints.

 Email: ippishelpdesk@softalliance.com

 Abuja contact office: 07029686737, 01-7403824

 Lagos contact: 08066215007.