FG Orders Military, Others Integration Into Electronic Payroll System

 

The Nigerian Military and all other institutions formerly excluded have been directed by the federal government to migrate into the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). This was made known by Vice President Yomi Osinbajo while speaking on the second day of the ongoing 21st Nigeria Economic Summit (NES) in Abuja.

 

“Now, directives have been given to the military and other institutions that were not part of IPPIS to go into the platform; we are likely to become more certain of the number of public servants there are and exactly how much is spent on remuneration of public servants.” he said.

 

This move he said became necessary so as to ascertain the exact number of public servants in public service and their salaries. He also spoke about the Government Integrated Financial Management System (GIFMS), a system that tries to match expenditure to budget in such a way that the Accountant General of the Federation and all the financial managers are able to see what is coming in, what is going out and what is being spent as per the budget.

 

Osinbajo noted that all these measure put in place will help government in meeting its resolve to be transparent and disciplined in the use of public resources for the benefit of the masses.

 

He continued: “The main objective of our public institution reform is to enhance the capacity of these institutions to deliver public goods effectively in response to citizens’ needs and demands,” 

 

Explaining further, Osinbajo said that the treasury single account policy was a way of coordinating government revenues and ensure that money spent by government pass through the right channels unlike before when government generating agencies keep many accounts without government knowledge thus giving room for malpractices. This single account policy will ensure that all government revenues come through the Central Bank of Nigeria and will be spent after appropriation by the National Assembly. This he said is in tandem with the government's reform agenda.

 

“One of the key issue is we are doing a bottom-up type of reasoning for our economic planning, what we are taking into account is the large number of extremely poor people as a basis for economic planning process. We have managed to integrate, in terms of working together for presentation of this policy paper, the national planning commission and the budget office of the federation and both agencies have been working seriously to produce this document which will be important in the economic planning and the work of the government in the next few months,” he elaborated.