The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, disclosed on Wednesday in a statement made available to newsmen through the Director of Communications, Mohammed Ahmed, that from Friday the salaries of any public officer whose records are not verifiable on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System will be stopped by Federal Government.

The director in a statement said that an ongoing two-week verification which was put in place as an act of magnanimity for officers who did not participate in the earlier verifications to do so and will end on Friday, October 27, 2023, as whoever fails to comply will not receive his or her salary.

The statement read: “Adequate arrangements were put in place for a smooth exercise in designated areas of the FCT, however, the officers’ impatience and lack of orderliness in the first two days made the exercise rowdy. This has been duly addressed and the two-week exercise, scheduled to end on Friday, October 27, 2023, is progressing very well.
The verification of records of all civil servants will be finalized at the end of the ongoing exercise and any officer whose record could not be verified will be delisted from the payroll of government.”

The Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, in 2013, was assigned with the responsibility of cleansing the record on the payroll.
The office opened a verification portal in April 2017, carried out aggressive sensitization and publicity via official, conventional, and social media, and directed all public servants to carry out online updates of their records.

Then after an initial period of three months given for the exercise ended, a one-year extension was added to May 2018, so as to enable all the workers to update their records.
The statement read: “Sequel to another wide publicity accompanied by numerous pre-verification sensitisation visits by IPPIS staff to Ministries, extra-ministerial Departments, and Agencies nationwide, the second phase of the exercise, the physical verification, commenced in 2018.

“In this regard, 500 staff from the OHCSF were trained and deployed, in well-communicated and coordinated phases, to the 36 states of the Federation and the FCT between 2018 and 2019 to enable officers to carry out the physical verification in their states and save them to from traveling to Abuja.”