446,002 federal workers captured on IPPIS ― Yemi-Esan – TheNigerialawyer

The Office of the Head of Service of the Federation said
yesterday, that 446,002 federal ministries, departments and
agencies (MDAs) workers, were captured under the Integrated
Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

Acting Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Mrs.
Folashade Yemi-Esan, disclosed this yesterday at a budget defence
session with the House of Representatives committee on public
service matters.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had during the
presentation of the 2020 budget proposal before a joint session of
the National Assembly announced that as from the end of October,
any staff not captured in the IPPIS will not be paid salary.

Yemi-Esan informed that out of the 446,002 federal staff
captured in the IPPIS, 77,651 are from the core civil service while
368,351 are from the public service.

According to her, “there are people that have been employed but
are yet to be documented. We received a number of letters of
recruitment and as they come into the Office of the Head of
Service, we compile the names and send back to the Civil Service;
because we have discovered that a lot of them come with fake
letters of employment”

She told the Committee that the HOS has decided to earmark N2
million for the printing of promotion letters in the 2020 budget
explaining that the promotion letters will be with security
features it was to forestall incidences of fake letters.

“We discovered that before now, people just type promotion
letters and take it to the ministries- these are people who are not
even staff. The amount (N2m) is not even enough because we need to
include some security features.

“The Civil Service Commission employs and the Head of Service
does documentation. However, for Grades level 01-06, the Head of
Service is allowed to employ.

Yemi-Esan disclosed that the government is focusing on the
implementation of the civil 2017-2020 civil service strategic plan,
which entails repositioning the service through training and
retraining adding that 1,500 staff have so far been trained out of
the about 80,000 that are due to benefit from the training.

“What we are focusing on is the implementation of the strategic
plan; for example, we have done the training of only 1,500 staff.
Meanwhile, we have about 80,000 civil servants that should be
trained”, she stated.

On the 2020 budget, Yemi-Esan disclosed that they are proposing
to spend N2.2 billion on personnel cost and N1.7 billion on
overhead leaving total recurrent at N4 billion, while capital is
N893 million.

Also, presenting the 2020 budget proposal to the committee,
executive secretary of the Federal Government Staff Housing Loans
Board, Mrs. Hannatu Fika said although they requested for N8.728
billion, only N5 billion was approved by the ministry of finance,
budget and national planning lamenting that it was grossly
inadequate.

She disclosed that the Federal Capital Territory Administration
(FCTA) has allocated a parcel of land to the loans board in Wassa
District of the FCT, which they intend to build 292 housing units
of two and three-bedroom flats for civil servants.

Chairman of the committee, Hon. Sani Bala (APC-Kano), and his
colleagues in commenting on the budget congratulated Mrs. Yemi-Esan
on her appointment and urged her to discharge her duties in the
most transparent manner and minimize waste.

The committee subsequently approved the budget after the Head of
Service entertained questions from some committee members.

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