The Office of the Account General of the Federation, OAGF, has said the federal government saved over N288 billion through the implementation of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, from April 2007 till date.
The OAGF revealed this on Thursday in Abuja when the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, visited the office on Peer Review Mechanism of Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) exercise.
The presentation was made by the Director of Information Technology Department of the OAGF, Afolabi Ajayi.
Mr Ajayi said the IPPIS scheme was one of the federal government’s reform initiatives designed to achieve a centralised payroll system of the government.
He said the IPPIS also facilitated easy storage, updating and retrieval of personal records for administrative and pensions processing to aid manpower planning and budgeting as well as to comply with global best practice.
Mr Ajayi explained that money saved was as a result of the difference between the amount government would have released to those MDAs based on appropriation and the actual amount released and paid through IPPIS.
“The IPPIS has made it possible for prompt and regular payment of salaries to public servants.
“The system has also facilitated prompt deductions and remittances to the accounts of all third parties stakeholders such as PFAs, NHIS, NHF and cooperative societies.
“506 MDAs with total staff strength of 344,625 are on the IPPIS platform with the gross pay of about N49.07 billion as at Sept. 2018,” he disclosed.