The Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF) 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 (IPPIS), according to Sunday PUNCH.
According to the OHCSF, it launched an IPPIS Human Resource verification scheme for all civil servants in a bid to ward off fake workers in the civil service.
In a memo dated 15th August 2023, signed by the Permanent Secretary in charge of the Career Management Office of the OHCSF, Marcus Ogunbiyi, it was noted that the officers that had not been verified had a deadline of 31st August 2023 to do so.
The memo tagged HCSF/HRM/M.1125/T/C/6 read: “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 (MDAs) 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”.
The job racketeering allegations in core MDAs led to the commencement of the IPPIS HR verification.
During a recent media interview, the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folashade Yemi-Esan noted that the IPPIS had continued to help in the weeding out of civil servants with fake employment letters.
At the resumed hearing of the committee in Abuja on Saturday, Chairman of House of Representatives’ Ad-hoc committee investigating job racketeering in MDAs, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi had said that it has not indicted the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyode, and that no agencies of the Federal Government had been indicted, contrary to speculations.
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 wrongdoing.
“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”.
