The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun stated that through the ongoing Bank Verification Number-based staff audit and enrolment to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, the amount spent on payment of salaries has reduced by N2.29bn in February compared to what it was in December 2015.It stated that through the ongoing Bank Verification Number-based staff audit and enrolment to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System
The statement as read, “Through the ongoing BVN-based staff audit and enrolment to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, the Federal Government has removed 23,846 non-existent workers from its payroll.
“Consequently, the salary bill for February 2016 has reduced by N2.293bn when compared to December 2015 at which time the BVN audit process commenced.”The ministry said the figure represented a percentage of the number of non-existent workers, who had hitherto been receiving salaries from various ministries, departments and agencies.
“The Federal Government is also taking actions to pursue recovery of salary balances in bank accounts as well as any pension contributions in respect of the deleted workers.“This involves active collaboration with the concerned banks and the National Pension Commission,” the statement added.
The ministry stated that with the adoption of the BVN platform to audit and sanitise the salary payment system, it had so far checked the details of about 312,000 civil servants currently enrolled on IPPIS.
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