Some civil servants in various Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), including those at the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), have been suspended following allegations of salary padding on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
The suspended workers were found to have manipulated the IPPIS system to artificially inflate their salaries beyond the designated thresholds.
One of the Assistant Directors at the OAGF, responsible for managing staff salaries, was accused of colluding with some employees to inflate the salaries of lower-level staff members.
Towncriernews gathered that the scheme came to light when a level 7 officer, whose salary should have been around N60,000, per month, received over N400,000, equivalent to the salary package of a Director.
The salary padding racket, as further learnt, has been ongoing among a small group of civil servants in different MDAs, with the IPPIS office of the OAGF at the centre it of the operation.
In response to the situation, the OAGF was said to have released a statement acknowledging the alleged “salary padding” on the IPPIS involving unspecified MDAs.
An independent forensic audit of the entire payroll system is said to be underway to determine the extent of breach.