No Salary For Staff Not Enrol On IPPIS- Minister Of Finance

No payment of salaries to any federal government staff not enrolled on the IPPIS.

The minister of finance said that leakages has to be blocked.

The Minister for Finance,budget and national planning,Zainab Ahmed has said that all federal government staff across all the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) who are not enrolled on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) will not get paid until they do so.

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed made this statement on Tuesday at the public presentation of the medium term expenditure framework and fiscal strategy paper (MTEF/FSP).

She said “personnel cost (inclusive of Pension Costs) at over N3.0 trillion has continued to rise. The FGN is however taking steps to contain the rising personnel costs, including an October 2019 deadline by Mr. President for all MDAs to implement IPPIS on the expenditure side of the framework, we have tried to keep most expenditure items as low as possible.”

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The Minister said that leakages has to be blocked and also states will begin to pay for the bailout they had received in 2016 from the federal government.

She added that the bailout funds belonged to the Central Bank (CBN) and will be deducted from source at the September 2019 FAAC revenue sharing and remitted to the CBN.

She however, didn’t say how much percentage of the N614bn will be deducted on a monthly basis until the debts are liquidated.

On the key assumptions for the MTEF, she said the national consumption is projected at N122.75trn whilst oil projection is pegged at 2.18 million barrels per day at $55 per barrel.