Direct savings from yearly appropriations of Ministries, Departments and Agencies MDAs on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System has grown to over 100 billion naira.
The Minister of Finance, Zainab Usman said this on Tuesday in Abuja while delivering a keynote address at a retreat.
The retreat was organised for relevant stakeholders on IPPIS by the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.
Usman, who was represented by her Special Adviser, Armstrong Takang, said that more than 519 MDAs had been brought under the policy.
She added that government personnel found to had been involved in the inclusion of ghost records on the platform were being prosecuted, while some were already serving jail terms.The Federal Government had recorded successes such as savings and cost reduction, elimination of manual and file based system, as well as reduction and elimination of corruption and sharp practices.
