Oil Sector Workers Reject Inclusion In IPPIS Wages System

The oil sector workers, yesterday, rejected a move by the Federal Government to incorporate its workers wage into the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (lPPIS).
This contained in a letter by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige.
The letter was jointly signed by PENGASSAN General Secretary, Comrade Lumumba Okugbawa and NUPENG General Secretary, Comrade Olawale Afolabi, yesterday.
It would be recalled that a circular from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) dated September 7, 2018, directed the enrollment of the Oil and Gas workers on lPPIS, which the frowned at.
This resulted in series of meetings to proffer ways to address the matter, at the end of the meetings; a technical committee was set up by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment to assess the unions’ concerns regarding its implementation.
“It is pertinent to state that this committee is yet to meet as we write, unfortunately, we have been inundated again by the threat from the Office of the OAGF, via a circular with reference number OAGF/IPPIS/93/1187, dated 29th August, 2019, to stop the salaries of our members, come October, 2019.
“We reaffirm that we are not against the government policy regarding IPPIS, but we wish refer to the existence of Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) platform which is run by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).”