Fourty-five thousand ghost workers have been uncovered in 215 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government under the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS), the Federal Government said yesterday.
Briefing State House Correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja, the Minister of State for Finance, Yerima Ngama said the IPPIS was introduced to enhance efficiency in personnel cost, planning and budgeting on actual verified number and not estimates.
According to him, the government has audited 215 MDAs and 153,019 workers as of January this year.
The minister said that 321 MDAs have not been captured in the IPPIS, adding that government has also established the Treasury Single Account (TSA) as a unified structure of government bank account, which gives a consolidated view of the cash position.
Ninety-two MDAs, he said, are currently on TSA while 97 Abuja-based MDAs would be added by next month.
Declaring that the Ministry of Finance is charged with the responsibility for fiscal consolidation, budget composition, increase revenue generation and building of buffers to take care of financial crisis, Ngama said that the ministry is also responsible for efficient micro economic management, mobilisation of fund for the real sector development and introduction of structural reforms that will enhance jobs creation.
The ministry, he said, broke the jinx surrounding late preparation of budget as the 2013 budget was presented at a record time in September last year.
According to Ngama, the government is planning to increase capital expenditure to 60 per cent and reduce recurrent expenditure to 40 percent.
The target, he said, is to reduce the fiscal responsibility of 6.11per cent to 2.17 this year and ultimately bring it down to about 1.7per cent .
President Goodluck Jonathan also set up a special committee to verify Nigeria’s assets abroad. It is valued at billions of naira.
Minister of Information Labaran Maku told State House correspondents after the Council meeting.
He said the inter-ministerial committee will go round the world and verify Nigerian assets abroad including those of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, assets of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) and the Nigerian Navy.
The committee, which is headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, has representatives from the Federal Ministries of Finance, Housing and Urban Development, Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) and Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP).
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