Some staff of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) have reportedly been suspended for their alleged roles in salary “padding”.

Some other civil servants in an undisclosed institute were also reportedly suspended for same offence.

The suspended workers allegedly connived with some officials in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to pad their salaries by manipulating the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

Currently, an Assistant Director whose identity was not disclosed that was deployed in the IPPIS unit of the RMAFC is undergoing probe over the salary padding.

A source familiar with the incident told The Nation that the assistant director, who is desk officer in charge of staff’ salary was alleged to have connived with the OAGF personnel to “pad” the salaries of unspecified number of lower cadre workers.

“The AD in connivance with some staff members are deep in the salary padding racket. The alarm blew recently when a Level 7 officer, whose salary should be in the range of N60, 000 was paid over N400, 000 – the salary package for a director.

“What happened was that another colleague on same salary scale saw the pay slip of a female colleague with a net pay of over N400,000. Surprised, he tried to get details of the excess payment but was rebuffed.
"Following the cold attitude from his colleague, the aggrieved staff raised the alarm and a committee was set up to investigate the matter."

Meanwhile, the salary padding racket according to the report, has been going on for a while among a small clique of civil servants in different MDAs with the IPPIS office in the OAGF as the epicenter of the activity.

Reacting to the development, the OAGF in a statement said it is “in receipt of enquiries over alleged “salary padding” on the IPPIS involving some unspecified MDA.

The OAGF noted that “there is no evidence of salary padding” before the OAGF at this time; however, the office is aware of reported breach of the IPPIS third party payment protocol at an Institute outside Abuja.

“The incident has since been reported to, and is being investigated by relevant anti-corruption, security and regulatory agencies.

“In the meantime, a staff suspected to be connected with the breach has been suspended to allow for thorough investigation.”

It added "all necessary steps are being taken to strengthen the controls around the IPPIS payment platform and an independent forensic audit of the entire payroll system is underway to ascertain if the reported breach is isolated or widespread."

However, the RMAFC Chairman, Mohammed Bello Shehu has confirmed the development, adding that some culprits had been identified and placed on suspension pending the investigation of the incidence.

He said some workers at the commission were found to have manipulated the IPPIS system to pad their salaries above what they were supposed to earn.

“If the indicted officials are found culpable of the salary padding allegations, they will be handed over to the appropriate authorities for prosecution,” Bello Shehu told the paper in a chat.

Although, declined to disclose the number or the identities of those involved, he however vowed that the commission will not condone such blatant disregard of the civil service rules.

“We will investigate to know how long this has been going on, how much has been illegally acquired and attempts made to recover the excess from those involved," he said.

helinues:
Some of the institutions would be merged together in the new administration. There are lots of people collecting monthly salary without doing any work

signature2012:


Yes o. You are right.
Hope Tinubu investigate his criminal son also.

By the way, I am not from the Eastern part of Nigeria.I know that will be your only defense against me for calling out your godfather who pays you 30k monthly to eat like peasant while his kids steal from us and enjoy life.

helinues:


Lol, even before the planned protest by PLP in Usa, we have seen the leg of the corpse they buried.

signature2012:

I was expecting you to deny it.
Now imagine if it was PO caught in this mess, what will be your reaction.
Buying a seized house with such amount of money.

Dont forget, his daughter who happens to be a student also bought an apartment in Brooklyn for $2.2m.
I know the house o.

helinues:
Some of the institutions would be merged together in the new administration. There are lots of people collecting monthly salary without doing any work

Nice2023:




Give them work now.

When u employ people just to be paying them salary what do u expect?

ijustdey:

Nigerian Revenue Commission, RMAFC, Accountant-General’s Office Suspend Workers Over Padding Of Salaries

God!! The level of corruption going on in this country God, just imagine? From 60k to 400k not even 200k? Greediness, yet most of them after leaving the service become useless




https://saharareporters.com/2023/05/02/nigerian-revenue-commission-rmafc-accountant-generals-office-suspend-workers-over

Nlfpmod

Evolutionlove:
Who Is Surprised??

95% Of Nigerians are Thieves and Very Wicked Beings.

Quodseverismete:
IPPIS is a fraud agency. There are several padding, looting, deduction of workers salary and stealing of workers arrears that was captured in the budget, the money released but IPPIS refused to pay to the affected workers till today.

The looting going on in IPPIS is on another level

Reference:
See that.
What did I say in the other post on 'Government unable to pay salaries until gasoline subsidy is removed'...
And I quote myself:

"Another proof that the average Nigerian just works and slaves to feed the civil service, the very folks who in cahoots with politicians have ruined this country since independence. They already consume almost all income of state after debt servicing...., not enough, they want more and more..."

Yes, the subsidy should be removed.
But if this is how the savings are going to be lost, then Nigeria may as well be lost.
We have not even started talking about the bazaar of inflated contracts that will be awarded by these same people to themselves, friends, and family.

Taxation has never been a problem in Nigeria. The problem since Gowon made his now infamous quip is 'spending', or in the case of Nigeria, wasting, stealing...
There is nothing in Nigeria to encourage the average citizen to desire to pay taxes or relinquish subsidies.
Let the government give the average Nigerian the benefit of the doubt for once in their sorry lives..... thieves....

helinues:


That's why merger is inevitable. The new body institution would create enough department to make people get busy and also provide smooth service to the citizens.

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