Head of
civil service of the federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita has confirmed that the federal
government will commence verification of employees in ministries, departments
and agencies on Monday, July 16.
The
exercise, which will last for two weeks, is expected to capture 330,820
employees who receive salaries through the Integrated Pay-roll Personnel
Information System (IPPIS) Platform.
Addressing a
press conference on Friday, Oyo-Ita said the exercise will only capture
employees who have completed their online data update.
“Those who
fail to carry out the online update are therefore excluded from this
verification exercise.
“The
upcoming verification exercise is therefore to authenticate documents of the
individual employees of the federal government and the procedure is that every
employee will present themselves for screening and the documents scanned into
the system.
“At the end
of the verification exercise, discrepancies will be resolved to ensure that
what is finally uploaded into the IPPIS platform has a high level of data
integrity.
“The
Verification exercise shall commence on Monday, July 16 with the core MDAs and
it is expected to be completed in two weeks.
“All the
concerned MDAs are to cooperate with the verifiers by providing enabling
environment for the successful conduct of the exercise according to the
circulated timetable.
“Verification
of the other MDAs not covered in the first phase shall be covered in the first
phase. Finally, the verified data will be migrated to the database of the IPPIS
platform. This is expected to pave the way for the automated HR processes,” she
said.
Oyo-Ita
advised all federal government employees, to partake in the exercise as
non-participation would mean that the individual’s data will be deleted from
the federal government employee database.
“The
consequence of non- compliance is having your data deleted from the federal
government employee database. The HR module will increase productivity and
improve transparency within the public service such that there is employee
traceability, personnel data Integrity, transaction accountability, process
delivery, and planning database,” she added.
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