The Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation headed by Folashade Yemi-Esan has written Chief Medical Directors of Federal Health Institutions and agencies for a list of members of staff that were not verified in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, Sunday PUNCH has learnt.
In a bid to ward off fake workers in the civil service, the OHCSF had launched an IPPIS Human Resource verification scheme for all civil servants.
In a memo dated August 15, 2023 and signed by the Permanent Secretary, Career Management Office of the OHCSF, Marcus Ogunbiyi, it was noted that the officers that had not been verified had a deadline of August 31, 2023.
The memo tagged HCSF/HRM/M.1125/T/C/6 reads, “It would be recalled that the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has carried out the IPPIS Human Resource records verification exercise for non-core Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the 36 states of the federation and the FCT.
“It was however observed that some officers in the health sector could not participate in the exercise due to the peculiarity of the sector, whereby some officers were on special assignments or on approved study leave thus making the exercise inconclusive for the affected MDAs.
“Accordingly, the affected MDAs in the health sector are requested to submit the list of officers that were not verified in the previous phases of the IPPIS HR records verification conducted by this office.”
Sunday PUNCH reports that the allegations of job racketeering in core Ministries, Departments and Agencies led to the commencement of the IPPIS HR verification.
The HoS, Folashade Yemi-Esan, during a recent interview with journalists, noted that the IPPIS had continued to help in the weeding out of civil servants with fake employment letters.
‘JAMB Registrar not indicted’
Rep Yusuf Gagdi, Chairman of Ad hoc Committee investigating job racketeering in MDAs, says it has not indicted the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyode.
He further said that no agencies of the Federal Government had been indicted, contrary to speculations.
He said this at the resumed hearing of the committee in Abuja on Saturday.
Gagdi said the committee had been having a robust engagement with all agencies appearing before it.
He said it was wrong to insinuate that the committee had indicted the JAMB registrar when it was still carrying out its assignment.
There have been reports that the committee indicted the JAMB registrar for employing about 300 staff without advertisement.
He said until the committee concluded its assignment and submitted a report to the house, it could not be said that it had indicted any agency for any wrong doing.
“This committee has not indicted the registrar of JAMB and we have not indicted any institution. You can only say that after we submit our report.
“We had a very good interaction with him and nobody should preempt the decision of this committee to say that somebody is faulty.”
Source | Punchng
Better, too many ghost workers in the civil service.