Folashade Yemi-Esan, the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, revealed that the government has recently uncovered a total of 1,618 civil servants who were found to possess fake employment letters.
Folashade Yemi-Esan, made an announcement stating that the government is actively pursuing an upward review of the Duty Tour Allowances for civil servants
Yemi-Esan made this revelation while Speaking with selected journalists in Abuja ahead of the 2023 Civil Servants Week ,adding that a committee was working towards salary harmonization in the civil service.
“On the issue of procurement of insurance cover for the federal government employees from 9th February 2023 to 8th February 2024; and payment of backlog of death benefits to over 1500 deceased officers to their beneficiaries from 2021 to date. On the third pillar of FCSSIP 25, the Office of the Head of Service has been working towards the implementation of HR Module of IPPIS with a view to bridging the identified gaps in the system.
As you are aware, prior to the introduction of the current mechanisms put in place to drive the implementation of the IPPIS, the system was bedeviled with considerable leakages and wastes as well as the incessant infiltration of ‘ghost workers’ etc.
“Consequent upon the identified loopholes in the IPPIS, the Office introduced control mechanisms. Notable among others was the inauguration of a Committee on Enrolment of Newly Recruited Civil Servants on the 1st of March, 2021. Hence, this and other initiatives in accelerating the roll-out of the HR Module of the IPPIS has brought about the following: Detection of 1,618 fake/illegal employment letters; Continuous suspension of Officers from IPPIS platform for not uploading their records; Verification of 69,854 officers across the core MDAs in FCT and the six (6) geo-political zones.”
Earlier on Tuesday the Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein, noted that there won’t be a delay in payment of July 2023 salaries for civil servants. She made this clarification during the meeting with the HoS Abuja.
Madein said the delay in May and June 2023 salaries to certain unavoidable bottlenecks beyond the control of the Office of the Accountant General. However, she reassured that necessary measures have been implemented to guarantee timely payment of salaries in the future.
She said, “For May and June, we encountered some difficulties beyond our control but I can assure you that everything has been put in place to ensure that July 2023 salaries are not delayed and will be paid any moment from now.”
