The management of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) Teaching Hospital has dismissed allegations of manipulation of the ongoing Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) biometric capture to favour some members of staff.
 
The management of the teaching hospital revealed that it had discovered a criminal scheme in which employment letters were being sold illegally, insisting that no one was given special treatment during the required verification process.
 
In a statement issued by the medical institution’s head of the public relations unit, Tope Fayehun, preliminary enquiries revealed that certain individuals have been fraudulently engaged in racketeering by selling and promising appointment letters and access to jobs within the institution.
 
While describing the purported actions as criminal, Fayehun, who stressed that the development would be addressed, emphasised that the only legal and approved capturing exercise is the one being conducted by the IPPIS Directorate, which, he said, began yesterday.
 
The statement read in part: “The management of FUTA Teaching Hospital is aware of recent malicious allegations that are circulating among the hospital staff and others that the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Olusegun Ojo, has been conducting selective IPPIS biometric captures to favour certain individuals.
 
“These claims are patent, while the lies are designed to damage the reputation of the CMD and of the institution. CMD has not authorised, instructed, or participated in any selective biometric capture activity before now and will not.
 
“All biometric capturing under the Federal IPPIS system at this hospital is being conducted in accordance with federal guidelines and institutional procedures, under the supervision of authorised personnel.
 
“Contrary to the dubious speculations making the rounds, our preliminary enquiries indicate that some individuals had been fraudulently engaged in racketeering by ‘selling’ or promising appointment letters and access to jobs within the hospital.”