The Federal
Government yesterday says it has discovered 45, 000 ghost workers from 251
Ministries Departments and Agencies of government under the integrated Payroll
and Personal Information system, IPPIS.
Minister of state for Finance, Yerima Ngama
disclosed this while briefing newsmen at State House, Abuja after
Wednesday's Federal Executive Council meeting Presided over by President
Goodluck Jonathan.
The IPPIS was introduced to enhance efficiency in
personnel cost, planning and budgeting by ensuring that personnel cost will now
be based on actual verified number and not on estimates.
Government has so far undertaken staff auditing in
215 Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs that make up the Federal Public
Service, auditing 153,019 staff as at January, 2013.
Minister of State for Finance Yerima Ngama noted
that 321 MDAs are yet to be captured on the IPPIS but government had also
established the Treasury Single Account as a unified structure of government
bank account that gives a consolidated view of the cash position.
On issues of the budget, the Minister of State for
Finance noted that the Ministry for the first time had broken the jinx
surrounding late preparation as the 2013 budget was presented at a record time,
in September, 2012.
He however was silent on why President Jonathan
had not yet signed the appropriation bill into law.
Nevertheless Dr Ngama disclosed that government
had plans to increase capital expenditure to 60 percent and reduce recurrent
expenditure to 40 percent.
President Goodluck Jonathan also on
Wednesday, set up a special Committee to verify Nigeria’s assets all over the
world,valued at Billions of Naira.
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