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FG orders all MDAs to join IPPIS
In from Timothy Enietan-Matthews (Nation’s capital)… .
The Federal Government has ordered all government agencies to join the Integrated Personnel and Payment Information System, IPIS, adding that it will help to curtail some abuses in the salary and emolument processes of the government.
This was stated yesterday by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at a meeting with Permanent Secretaries and Director Generals for a sensitization session on 2016 budget and the 2016-2020 Medium Term Plan of the government.
According to Osinbajo, the military and universities are to join the IPPIS.
“We need to cut overheads too, we can’t spend as we used to spend. We need to block leakages, increase accountability and transparency. This is an absolute necessity, the level of corruption is an outrage and we have to deal with it”, he noted.
Osinbajo further observed that in order to achieve the socio-economic goals of the Buhari administration, with dwindling oil revenues on the one hand, and the number of Nigerians living in poverty, there was an urgent need to change the way budgeting is done.
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The Vice President added that the country’s greatest challenge “is controlling ballooning recurrent expenditure and freeing up resources for growth-related capital expenditure”.
He insisted that government will confront poverty, adding that it will be “something more direct, different from how we have done it in the past, hence budgeting has to be done differently.”
According to him, budget planning under the Buhari administration would restore the long term, policy-based, approach to budgeting alongside a Zero-Based Budgeting which questions all expenses ensuring greater transparency.
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