The House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee investigating employment racketeering and gross mismanagement of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) by agencies, has summoned the Nigerian Army, Navy, Airforce and the Police, and the intelligence agencies, among others , to appear before it.
Chairman of the committee, Yusuf Gagdi, who handed down the directive during a hearing of the committee Tuesday expressed displeasure over their absence even though they were duly invited.
“Let me say this to all agencies we have invited, I think we need to read their names clearly here. They are the Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, the Nigerian Communication Commission, the Nigerian Post Services, the Nigerian Frequency Management Council, Galaxy backbone, National Identity Management Commission, Nigerian Correctional Service, Nigeria Immigration Service, Fire Service, Nigerian Police Force, Defence Intelligence Agency, State Security Service, National Intelligence Agency, Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, Nigerian Army, Nigerian Airforce and Nigerian Navy must appear tomorrow since they have failed to appear today. This is the ruling of the committee,” he said.
At the hearing Tuesday, Accountant General of the Federation said her office is working hard to fish out ghost workers who existed in the system before the introduction of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
She denied allegations that her office was engaging in the enrolment of ghost workers for personal gains.
“Having realised that this is a system that needs to be reviewed, on my assumption of duty, I met a series of issues around IPPIS and that made me organise stakeholders with all the service providers around the IPPIS, where the service providers came and made presentations, questions were asked.
“The stockholders meeting ran for two weeks where all the service providers were scheduled for each day and they came with their technical handlers, while the technical team of the OAGF on the ground were discussing series of issues about the system.
“As of today, we have 640 MDAs registered on the IPPIS, enrolled on the IPPIS, because there are some that are not on the IPPIS like all the security agencies and federal government owned enterprises that generate revenue. They are not on IPPIS. The self funding agencies are not on IPPIS,” she said.
