Nduka Chiejina (Assistant Editor), Abuja
Over 90,000 university workers have been captured in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), it was learnt on Wednesday.
The IPPIS is a computerised Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) that is being implemented in Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAs) and local governments to perform various human resource functions.
The Director in charge of IPPIS in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), Mr. Olufehinti Olusegun, stated this in a chat with told The Nation in Abuja.
He said the process of capturing the university workers, lecturers included, continues.
Olusegun said: “There is a process, which is still ongoing. When we finish capturing, there are processes we must follow: from data cleansing, to pay-rolling.”
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The director explained that after the pay-rolling, the IPPIS team would review the wild data collected to determine if there is anybody who is not supposed to be on the payroll that has been captured.
“We don’t publish wild data from the field to prepare the payroll. It has to be reviewed to be sure it meets certain criteria,” he said.
On what will happen to university workers not yet enrolled into the new payroll system, Olusegun said he had no idea what fate awaits such persons.
“We will cross the bridge when we get there. I don’t know their fate, I only know the people that are on the platform. I can only speak for people who have been captured. It is beyond me to know if they will be paid their December salary. The government will do what it has to do when the time comes,” he said.
According to him, the Federal Government is “not at war with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)”.
Olusegun added: “The consultation is ongoing. We will keep on letting them realise the importance of coming on board. It is for their own good. Many of them seem to have realised that the Federal Government is their paymaster.”
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