Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed reports,
The Director-General of the Public Service Reforms, Dr. Dasuki Arabi, has announced that the Federal Government-backed Integration Personnel and Payroll Information System has exposed and gotten rid of 70,000 ghost workers in the civil service system and saved about N220bn.
He made this known at the 43rd Session of the Ministerial Briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Dr. Arabi added that N10tn had been through the Treasury Single Account since it was totally enforced by the Buhari administration.
According to him: “With the introduction of IPPIS, about 70,000 ghost workers have been eliminated from the payroll. We have a one-shot opportunity to look at IPPIS and say, as of today, we have 720,000 public servants working for Nigeria.
“We’ve been able to reduce more than N220bn wastage through wrong management of IPPIS on payroll by ministries, departments and agencies of government. We have reduced the budget deficits and changed the budget composition.
“We have succeeded in getting the Treasury Single Account deployed in all ministries, departments and agencies of government. Challenges have come in that implementation at the initial stage, but we are overcoming that and the government can save over N10tn over the years because whatever you’re generating now goes into a Treasury Single Account that is managed by somebody else, not you.
“And the government, especially at the top, is always able to see what has come into our Treasury Single Account today and what has gone out of that. So planning has been simplified. Budgeting has been simplified.”
