5,000 federal civil servants may not get Nov, Dec salaries

There is anxiety among federal civil servants as about 5,000 of them may not get November and December salaries.

The National President of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Dr Tommy Okon, who disclosed this in Abuja, urged the Federal Government to resolve the issues swiftly.

He explained that out of the 17,000 who were delisted from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) in October 2023 are on course to receive their salaries, only those who had earlier completed their verification exercise but were mistakenly delisted have had their salaries restored.


According to him, 5,000 civil servants still have discrepancies on their date of first appointment and date of birth. A total of 2,772 have been verified and forwarded to IPPIS for payment because there were no issues.”

While advising affected civil servants to constantly check the Head of Service of the Federation website for regular updates so as not to be caught unawares, he hinted that six teams are working to ensure that the exercise is completed on time.

“It is advisable for a public servant to develop the habit of checking the HOS Website for regular updates. We have confirmed that the salary for November 2023 is concluded. Therefore, those affected will not get their salaries for November,” Okon stated.

However, he assured that some of the affected workers might likely get their salaries for December, including the arrears from September.

Okon appealed to the Federal Government through the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation to expedite action to ensure that December salaries are not delayed while urging members of the union to exercise patience as everything is being done within the ambit of the laws to ensure that the issues are resolved expeditiously.

On the recent promotions examination for Directors aspiring to the office of the Permanent Secretaries, Dr Okon said such examinations will increase the efficiency of civil service being the engine room of government policies.

Indeed, the Public Service Rule (PSR) states that the selection shall be through a competitive examination process including but not limited to written examination, test of ICT proficiency and oral interview and Resource persons from the Civil/Public Service and Private institutions may be involved in the selection process.

Okon added: “It is expected that when you rise in your career as a director, you have gotten to the pinnacle of your career. Hence, the position of Permanent Secretary is another kettle of fish, which requires greater responsibility and a broader scope of competence. We are yet to understand how government projects and activities are to be driven effectively without having in place the best hands and brains.”

He lamented that over time, the Civil Service has suffered exponential decadence of its pool of highly skilled and knowledgeable officers, saying, “We cannot continue to pay lip service to the need to scale the quality of the civil servants especially those at the senior level who are expected to demonstrate impeccable character and capability to drive government projects and programmes.

“A situation where only 20 candidates out of 85 demonstrated the requisite knowledge and skill at the written examination and 18 candidates from that number made it to the final stage of the recently concluded selection exercise for the appointment of permanent secretaries leaves little to be imagined about the state of the quality of officers in the Civil Service.”

https://guardian.ng/appointments/5000-federal-civil-servants-may-not-get-nov-dec-salaries/

According to him, 5,000 civil servants still have discrepancies on their date of first appointment and date of birth. A total of 2,772 have been verified and forwarded to IPPIS for payment because there were no issues.”

There is the problem.

Ok

Suicide mission loading in this Christmas period. Let it not be true.

People are here to:

1. Read the news and comment appropriately.

2. just spill what's in their frustrated mind.

3. Fish for bad news to blame the government and APC.

4. Just read news and bounce.

5. Catch whatever they understand as fun.

6. Validate their miseries and ill-fortune.

Lmoa lmao


Hunger already dey ground but them never satisfied they want to increase the level.

December go be like smoke screen for our dear civil servants.

Abeg o

Some of them started working before they were born.

Rat poison should be banned

Hmm

How will they survive this December?

The first commenters didn't read....just rushing to comment like kids.

Una support leader without head and u want to enjoy good governance? U people are old and moronic jokers

Hehehe.

Na him be say, this Christmas don red oh.

In this horrible economic bite? May the Lord judge any man who is behind this wicked plot. How will workers just suddenly be delisted from IPPIS?

Which kind bad news be this? This is the time to even pay them the "13th month salary" sef. At least to ameliorate the hardship

nairalanda1:


There is the problem.

It doesn't give them the right to withhold their salary


Their are other measures to use for effective enforcement


Every thing goes in Nigeria nobody cares

Tinubu and his APC will eventually cause the revolution that'll cause this country to implode, not any breakaway group. Mark my words

Hmm. Check signature

Punishment. Federal government will instead remember their cronies and thugs that helped them in the elections. Those ones will get December allowance plus bonus plus hamper plus end of the year gifts and many other pluses.

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Kafirs getting what they paid for....

This country... Eeh

Are they still paying the civil servants the monthly 35k palliative? Cos I don't trust this wayo government.

My concern is why public service refuse to advance, go and see how companies organise with their activities. There should be better way of doing verification.

I don't want to believe Nigeria has not advance, but government choose to remain stagnant.

Dubetex96:



It doesn't give them the right to withhold their salary


Their are other measures to use for effective enforcement


Every thing goes in Nigeria nobody cares

Can you tell nairalanders other measures that can be use for effective enforcement?

Zeebuy:
Tinubu and his APC will eventually cause the revolution that'll cause this country to implode, not any breakaway group. Mark my words

Revolution will happen because people with discrepancies in their details are not getting paid?

You better move on with your life because Tinubu will rule till 2027 and recontest.

Discrepancies is not new to us, it is their thing. Please confirm from the presidency.

Pay them their salaries abeg

Discrepancies ko, Discrepancies ni!

Tbe plight of the civil servants doesn't matter to the drugs cartel government, sofar the criminals in the federal houses and criminal ministers will have their Jumbo pay that will be enough

They should kukuma sentence everybody to death in this country, the hardship is really unbearable, passing through mile 2 yesterday saw grown up market women crying because they demolished thier shops and all I just felt the pain. And now some won't still get paid again.


God dey sha.