FG to begin IPPIS verification of civil servants July 16, says Oyo-Ita

Head of Civil Service of the Federation has said the verification of Federal Government employees on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) will commence on Monday, July 16.

She said that a total of 486 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) with over 300,000 employees are enrolled on the IPPIS platform. According to her, the verification was part of the implementation of the eight priority areas of the 2017 to 2020 Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan (FCSSIP) and the verification was to authenticate the documents of individual employees of the Federal Government and would entail everyone presenting themselves and documents for screening.

According to her, at the end of the verification, discrepancies will be resolved to ensure that what is finally uploaded unto the IPPIS platform has high level of data integrity and urged all MDAs to provide enabling environment for the successful conduct of the exercise and employees who do not comply would have their data deleted from the employee database.

The verification, which is scheduled to run for two weeks, will start with the Federal Ministry of Information, Health, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) and Ministry of Defence (MOD), from July 16 to 20. From July 23 to 27, it would be the turn of the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation, Accountant-General of the Federation, State House, Federal Ministry of Environment, Power Works and Housing and others. The verification would come to a close on August 3, when officers would visit the Federal Technical College, Orozo, FCT.