The Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris today in Lagos revealed that the Federal Government has enrolled 711 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform.
Idris, who was represented by his Director of Consolidated Account, Salawu Zubairu said this at a training for IPPIS Role Players in the South-West, adding that the number enrolled was out of a thousand MDAs in the country.
According to him, irrespective of the resistance by some government agency to be captured under IPPIS, he assured that his office would not relent on its mandate until all the workers of federal government were put under IPPIS platform.
He allayed the fear of Federal Workers working outside the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja over the apprehension that they would have to travel to Abuja to sort out any problem that may characterize payment of salaries, saying that the government would decentralise the management of payroll, so that any issue encountered in the implementation of IPPIS could be resolved without any need to travel to Abuja.
His words, “IPPIS is one of the key reform initiatives of the Federal Government. It provides a platform for payment of personnel emoluments and maintains a database for information and actions on government workforce. This position underscores the resolve by the Federal Government to evolve permanent solutions to hitches that may be observed in the operations of the policy. In introducing the IPPIS into the country’s public service, the government seeks to entrench transparency and accountability in the management of the payroll system. Prior to introduction of the IPPIS, the manual payroll system that was in operation made it impossible to determine the number of personnel in MDAs, that were paid salaries, due to non-availability of necessary data”.
He said IPPIS had aided efficient management of personnel records, transparency in administration of government payroll timely payment of salaries and wages, accurate deduction of taxes and other third-party dues, as well as smooth remittances of payroll deductions to third parties.
