ICPC to prosecute 3,657 civil servants as 61,446 verified on IPPIS

A total of 3,657 civil servants have so far been reported to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC)

A total of 3,657 civil servants have so far been reported to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) for prosecution for failing to get verified on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, disclosed this in Abuja Thursday while featuring at the briefing organised by the Presidential Communications Team.

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She said 61,446 civil servants from various ministries, departments and agencies had been verified on the IPPIS platform. 

She said another 1,618 applicants were found to have used illegal or fake letters; while 874 officers had been suspended from the platform. She said the government saved about N180m monthly and about N2bn annually by implementing IPPIS.

She said IPPIS could accommodate the salaries of university lecturers who preferred University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) yet to pass relevant integrity tests.

On why permanent secretaries were prone to corruption, she said most of them got jailed for offences they did not directly commit.