Labour leaders and federal civil servants have expressed worry over challenges posed by the integrated payroll and personnel Information System, IPPIS initiated by the federal government to centralize payment of salaries of public servants.
Our correspondent Oriola Afolabi takes a look at factors responsible for the dissatisfaction and plights of workers on issues of IPPIS and other related matters.
Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System IPPIS was introduced in 2007 by the federal government to cover 506 Agencies, commissioners, parastatals and all ministries with the mandate of ensuring a centralized payment of salaries’ case, staff remuneration, promote accountability and prevent corrupt practices in the system.
Some of those who spoke with Radio Nigeria on the scheme, listed challenges posed by the IPPIS to workers to include challenge of under payment, none payment of salaries arrears from 2 to 15 months and none recognition of labour law by the managers of the scheme.
In his own submission, the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Obafemi Awolowo university, OAU, Dr Adeola Egbetokun said that the introduction of IPPIS was good at the beginning but the reverse was the case, as the system had dropped in quality while workers now faced untold hardship before they could be paid.
Dr. Egbetokun maintained that the efforts by the ASUU to address the problem did not yield positive result.
The chairman, Non Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, Federal University Oye Ekiti, FUOYE, Mr Ayodele Ojumo-Ola who lamented the suffering some of their workers were going through due to ineffectiveness of the IPPIS, said federal government needed to take urgent steps to correct problems that the scheme posed on federal workers nationwide.
Mr Ojumo-Ola maintained that the system created to fight corruption and ease remuneration had turned to hardship.
Vice President, Trade Union Congress TUC, Dr Tom Etimmy who commended the initiative and initiator of IPPIS for a job weldone towards eliminating corruption in the system however blamed most of the problems recorded so far in the system on management of various institutions by not showing interest in the system.
Dr Etimmy called on federal government to decentralise IPPIS and make it more effective, by ensuring proper monitoring and allocation of enough funds to settle the backlogs of salary arrears.
The Vice President ‘B” zone of the Nigeria Union of Journalists Mrs Ronke Samo advised federal government to as a matter of urgency look into some of the grey areas associated with the scheme for possible remedy.
Mrs Samo suggested that those who were not skillful enough should not be allowed to work with the scheme to guard against errors and other forms of miscalculation.
Oriola Afolabi
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