FG To Stop Salaries of Employees Not On IPPIS Platform – Finance Minister

BY GLORIA USMAN, ABUJA – The Federal Government on Friday announced that it would commence the stoppage of the salaries of all Federal Government employees that are not on the IPPIS platform. 

Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, who announced this in Kano State at the 2020 Management Retreat organised by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) for Treasury Directors of Finance and Accounts and Directors of Internal Audit, noted that some public servants have resisted all efforts to get them registered on the IPPIS platform.

The minister said the next line of action will be to implement the directive of the President by stopping their salaries. 

She also announced that the federal government has approved the posting of Treasury Directors from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), to revenue generating agencies as Directors of Revenue, adding that the pilot phase of the postings of the Revenue Directors will commence with few Revenue Agencies. 

The Minister of Finance therefore charged the Revenue Directors to live above board and work to ensure increased revenue generation by the Agencies.\

Ahmed urged the Directors of Finance and Accounts and Directors of Internal Audit to use the Retreat as a platform to evolve ideas that will ensure fulfilment of the Federal Government’s vision of accountability in public finance management. 

Earlier in his address of welcome, the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, said his office will continue to mordenise and address the challenges confronting the country’s payment system and improve the overall operations of the Federal Treasury. 

Idris said the retreat will provide a platform to review the progress achieved so far in the implementation of the federal government’s financial management reforms, with emphasis on the benefits, challenges and the way forward. 

The three-day retreat, with the theme, “Global Best Practices in 21st Century Treasury Management,” which commenced on, March 5, is expected to end on March 8, 2020.

The Programme was packaged to reorientate the Treasury Directors on sundry issues regarding the management of finance in the Ministries, Agencies and Departments (MDAs).