FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INAUGURATES COMMITTEE TO REVIEW IPPIS, OTHERS OVER IRREGULARITIES

The Federal Government has inaugurated a Presidential Steering Committee to review Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System, IPPIS, the Treasury Single Account, TSA, and Government Integrated Financial Management System, GIFMIS, over irregularities. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who is also the chairman of committee inaugurated it on Friday in Abuja.

Pantami said the committee will be supervised by his ministry and other relevant government institutions, noting that the systems have technical challenges which needed to be corrected. He disclosed that the committee has been mandated to proffer solutions to the possible leakages inherent in the systems that were exploited by people to divert public funds. According to him, the committee will serve as a presidential committee with the mandate of ensuring the review of the strengths of these systems and the challenges or weaknesses.