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FG Spends N862bn On Workers’ Salary
The Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) Mr. Ibrahim Dankwambo has disclosed that the Federal Government spends N862 billion on workers’ salaries annually.
Speaking in a press briefing on the operation of the Integrated Personal & Payroll Information System (IPPIS) in Abuja, Dankwambo said he was in a position to state exactly how many the government presently pays.
According to him, to ascertain the number would require inquiring from the office of the Head of Service of the Federation and the Nation’s Budget Officer.
His words: “The total number like somebody asked is one of the challenges we have as at today. To tell you today, the total number of people that are in the service, maybe the Head of Service will be in a better position to answer you.
To tell you the number of people we pay today, maybe you have to go through the budget officer”.
Similarly, the Head of Service of the Federation, Mr. Stephen Orosanye, who earlier spoke in his office, claimed that the system is to capture employees so that the incidence of ghost workers can be reduced or eliminated.
Orosanye said: “In the very first phase, about 55,000 licences were paid for but two years or so down the road, not more than 35,000 have been captured. We now want to roll out to other MDAs so that the first phase of this programme can be fully implemented.
“What this means really is that by the time all of us are finger printed and we are all captured then we can begin to beat our chest that the salaries we pay actually go to staff that are actually employed.
But the AGF explained that the Federal Government introduced the IPPIS to ensure transparency, accountability in governance, adherence to due process and rule of law.
The system, which he described as a confirmation of the e-payment system that was introduced last year would also ensure that through the process of technology government captures all Federal Government’s workers.
This, according to him will be done by ensuring that their data are electrically driven and retrieved when required and to ensure that workers’ salaries are paid as at when due.
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