The Nigerian federal government workers who are being paid under the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), have lamented that their salaries are being excessively deducted while they have not been able to access their payslips on the IPPIS portal to know the cause of the abnormal deductions.
The workers recalled that early in February 2024, the IPPIS portal was opened and they had access to their payslip via the portal and they knew their basic salary, their deduction, and their netpay.
But from May, the portal was shut down and they were thrown into the dark.
According to the workers, during the period in which the IPPIS portal has been shut down, they witnessed excessive and abnormal deduction, to the extent that level 10 officers got a take home of N25,000 as their netpay.
While all efforts to contact the IPPIS proved abortive, SaharaReporters gathered that during the period in which the IPPIS portal shut down, the Federal Fire Service got a two months rent subsidy arrears.
Meanwhile, the remaining organs of the Ministry of Interior including the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCOS) did not get a dime.
“Those who were promoted in December 2023 were not placed and this month marks a year of their promotion.
“All paramilitary personnel and those who are being paid under IPPIS want the Federal Government to order IPPIS to activate the IPPIS portal to enable them to have access to their payslips,” sources told SaharaReporters.
SaharaReporters had reported that some personnel of the Nigeria Prisons Service, the NSCDC and the NIS lamented the alleged nonpayment of their promotion arrears as well as failure by the Nigerian government to place the promoted workers on their new salary scale.
The personnel had called on President Bola Tinubu to order an investigation into the issue in order to know why the allowances had not been paid even though the funds for its payment had been released.
According to them, those promoted had not been paid their promotion arrears while those working in the Federal Fire Service and other agencies under the same Ministry of Interior had been placed on their next levels and paid their allowances.