The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has called on members to remain calm as measures were being taken to address the alleged delisted from the monthly payroll of the federal government, under the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
The call came following apprehension already building up from the civil servants, over news that over 17,000 government employees were said to have been delisted from the IPPIS for failing to comply with a verification exercises spanning over five years.
ASCSN national president, Comrade Tommy Etim Okon, who addressed journalists on issue yesterday in Abuja, said that there were some discrepancies in the IPPIS verification process.
He alleged that names of Personal Assistants (PAs), Special Advisers (SAs) and in some cases ministers who had served in successive governments were found in the portal.
Okon also criticised some of his members for feigning ignorance of the verification exercise while it lasted.
He however noted that the office of the Head of Service of the Federation has given a one week grace period for affected employees who were erroneously omitted from the IPPIS portal to forward their documents for update, provided they had genuine cases.
He said, “We called your attention to what we heard or information at our disposal just few days ago, we received an information that over 17,000 workers in the core civil service did not carry out the online verification which was done by the office of the Head of Service of the Federation.
Quickly we swung into action to interface with the government through the HoSF and by that singular act, there was need for us to talk to our members and that informed the reasons, because we have seen a lot of apprehensions from our members, receiving several phone calls, then we also looked at the timing because of the social economic challenges
