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Senate Begins Investigation Into IPPIS Bribery Scandal

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The Senate on Wednesday started an investigation into a bribery scandal surrounding the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

The scandal involves IPPIS staff at various universities across Nigeria.

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The Upper Chamber’s move followed a motion by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah (Anambra South).

The IPPIS tenure was introduced in 2007 to ensure monthly payroll of federal government’s workers to guarantee staff emoluments.

He recalled that the use of IPPIS for storage of personnel records and management of staff payroll in Federal Government-owned universities was a thorny issue between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Ubah, in his motion also said that since the introduction of IPPIS, over two million federal government employees across 696 ministries, departments and agencies, including some staff of federal government-owned universities and other tertiary institutions, have been reportedly captured on the IPPIS platform.

According to him, while the federal government insisted that IPPIS remains the best personnel records and payroll management system to be used for storage of records and management of payroll of university staff, ASUU took a different position, recommending the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) as an alternative that is most suitable for universities particularly.

“While the Federal Government and ASUU were unable to reach an agreement regarding which of the two payment platforms to be adopted for management of university staff payroll, recent allegations of bribery, corruption and delayed capturing and payment of some university staff recruited as far back as in 2020 through the IPPIS has called for urgent investigation of those irregularities because of untold hardship caused to affected university staff and their families.

“In many federal government universities, staff employed as far back as 2020 are yet to be captured on the IPPIS platform and therefore are not being paid their salaries since they were recruited about three years ago.

“Some of the affected staff cutting across many universities have been alleged to bribe IPPIS officials for the purpose of getting captured on the platform.

“The allegations of bribery, corruption, delayed capturing and payment of salaries of newly recruited staff of federal government-owned universities have cast serious doubt on the credibility and suitability of IPPIS as a platform for managing the payroll of university staff as institutions clothed with autonomy for the purposes of teaching, learning and research,” he stressed.

Following this, the Upper Chamber resolved to investigate the allegations of bribery and corruption against IPPIS officials at various universities across the federation.

It said that the investigation would also include delayed capturing and payment of staff of federal government-owned universities as well as the status of the disagreement between the Federal Government and ASUU on the use of either IPPIS or UTAS as the preferred payment platform for Nigerian university staff.

The Red Chamber said the investigation would be carried out by its Committee on Tertiary Institutions when constituted.

The committee was also mandated to interact with the Head of Service, National President of ASUU, the Chairman of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities and other relevant stakeholders in carrying out its mandate.

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