Salary Suspension: 331 Civil Servants May Get Respite

The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation
(OHOCSF) has moved to resolve the issue of 331 officers whose
salary were recently suspended for failure to carry out the online
records update of the HR Module of Integrated Personnel and Payroll
Information System (IPPIS) and participate in the physical
verification exercise.

Spokesman of the OHOCSF, Mallam AbdulGaniyu Aminu, said on
Tuesday in Abuja that this is being handled by the Department of
IPPIS, service-wide in the OHOCSF.

He said that affected officers can contact some designated staff
of the department for guidance on the resolution of the issue.

It would be recalled that a circular with ref: HCSF/CSO/HRM/T/41
dated 9 June, 2021 and signed on behalf of the Head of Civil
Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan by the Permanent
Secretary, Career Management Office (CMO), Mahmuda Mamman had said
that despite all the various circulars issued in the past,
requesting employees of Ministries Departments and Agencies(MDAs)
to carry out an online records update on the HR Module of IPPIS
verification portal, some employees in the core-MDAs failed to
comply with the directives.

The circular added that “As a result of this, they could also
not participate in the physical verification exercise that was
carried out between June 2018 and December 2020 as their records
were not found on the verification portal.”

This led to the stoppage of the affected civil servants.

The HR Module of IPPIS records update exercise was initiated to
rid the service of ghost workers, cut down on government
expenditure and ensure credible personnel records.

The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation
(OHOCSF) has moved to resolve the issue of 331 officers whose
salary were recently suspended for failure to carry out the online
records update of the HR Module of Integrated Personnel and Payroll
Information System (IPPIS) and participate in the physical
verification exercise.

Spokesman of the OHOCSF, Mallam AbdulGaniyu Aminu, said on
Tuesday in Abuja that this is being handled by the Department of
IPPIS, service-wide in the OHOCSF.

He said that affected officers can contact some designated staff
of the department for guidance on the resolution of the issue.

It would be recalled that a circular with ref: HCSF/CSO/HRM/T/41
dated 9 June, 2021 and signed on behalf of the Head of Civil
Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan by the Permanent
Secretary, Career Management Office (CMO), Mahmuda Mamman had said
that despite all the various circulars issued in the past,
requesting employees of Ministries Departments and Agencies(MDAs)
to carry out an online records update on the HR Module of IPPIS
verification portal, some employees in the core-MDAs failed to
comply with the directives.

The circular added that “As a result of this, they could also
not participate in the physical verification exercise that was
carried out between June 2018 and December 2020 as their records
were not found on the verification portal.”

This led to the stoppage of the affected civil servants.

The HR Module of IPPIS records update exercise was initiated to
rid the service of ghost workers, cut down on government
expenditure and ensure credible personnel records.