The Federal Government has begun moves
to sanitise the Nigeria Police salary system by including it in the
Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
Delivering a lecture at a training workshop for Police officers in charge, of mechanised salary sections and pay officers in Abuja on Thursday, a representative of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mrs.Fatima Mede, stated that the IPPIS would eradicate all forms of corruption associated with police salaries.
Mede, who noted that 300,000 police officers were currently on government payroll, explained that the IPPIS would also rid the Force of ghost workers and other persons, who are not entitled to police salary.
According to her, government officials had engaged in age and document falsification and have continued to receive salaries even when they should have been retired from government service.
She said many such cases were being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission.
“The IPPIS will put an end to corruption and fraud in the police pay system and also rid the force of the incidences of ghost workers,” Mede said.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, urged participants to imbibe the mechanism of the new salary system, pointing out that intentional mistakes, which could lead to corruption, would not be tolerated by the police management.
Meanwhile, the IG has lamented that the advent of the Internet had drastically reduced the reading culture among Nigerians, leading to stifling of knowledge in the society.
Abubakar stated this during the the multiple inauguration of ‘Read Africa Project’ and also an ultra-modern office complex of the new Directorate of Police Education.
The police boss regretted that rather than reading books, Nigerians, especially students, preferred to play games, toying with their BlackBerry phones, and other Internet devices.
Delivering a lecture at a training workshop for Police officers in charge, of mechanised salary sections and pay officers in Abuja on Thursday, a representative of the Accountant-General of the Federation, Mrs.Fatima Mede, stated that the IPPIS would eradicate all forms of corruption associated with police salaries.
Mede, who noted that 300,000 police officers were currently on government payroll, explained that the IPPIS would also rid the Force of ghost workers and other persons, who are not entitled to police salary.
According to her, government officials had engaged in age and document falsification and have continued to receive salaries even when they should have been retired from government service.
She said many such cases were being investigated by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission.
“The IPPIS will put an end to corruption and fraud in the police pay system and also rid the force of the incidences of ghost workers,” Mede said.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, urged participants to imbibe the mechanism of the new salary system, pointing out that intentional mistakes, which could lead to corruption, would not be tolerated by the police management.
Meanwhile, the IG has lamented that the advent of the Internet had drastically reduced the reading culture among Nigerians, leading to stifling of knowledge in the society.
Abubakar stated this during the the multiple inauguration of ‘Read Africa Project’ and also an ultra-modern office complex of the new Directorate of Police Education.
The police boss regretted that rather than reading books, Nigerians, especially students, preferred to play games, toying with their BlackBerry phones, and other Internet devices.
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