IPPIS Fails to Remit N4.39M Deducted from Kwara NBS Staff Salaries to Cooperative

Date: 2024-11-12

FIJ reports that in November 2022, the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform deducted N4.39 million from the salaries of Kwara National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) staff, intended for the Kwara Staff Multipurpose Co-operative Society, but has yet to remit the amount as required.

According to Oyebanjo Oladeji, a principal statistician at Kwara NBS, the IPPIS system is mandated to deduct monthly loan repayments from staff salaries and transfer those funds to the cooperative society by the first week of each month. Oladeji discussed this mandate with FIJ on Thursday.

“Usually, what we do is to send lists of staff members who are co-operative members to IPPIS to deduct from (the) source, because they are in charge of payments of our salaries. We feel it is convenient and comfortable to deduct from source,” Oladeji said.

“That has been the usual practice over the years. What IPPIS does is that they deduct members' money, and during the first week of the following month, then they return the cumulative amount into the bank account of our co-operative society.”

Every month, the co-operative society sends names and deduction variations of owing members to the IPPIS.

After this deduction, the payroll platform is expected to remit the total deductions back to the co-operative society.

“What we normally do in our co-operative is that we give different loans to our members; emergency loans, real loans and other loans like that. We then prepare the variation. A person may have the agreement to pay the loan back within a year,” Samuel Adegboro, secretary of the co-operative society, explained.

“In that instance, if the loan is N100,000 or N200,000, we then divide it by 12 months. We will now send the variation to IPPIS for deduction. They would continue deducting for those twelve months.”

Oladeji also said that the December 2021 deduction made by the IPPIS was expected to be remitted to them in January 2022, but the IPPIS has held on to the N4,420,000 since then.

He added that the organisation once faced a similar issue in November 2020 which was not resolved until they sent a non-remittance letter to the IPPIS.

Oladeji, who is no longer a member of the co-operative society, said the financial capacity of the society took a significant hit due to the IPPIS's failure to fulfil its end of the bargain.

“Some of the members who needed loans to service some necessities in their daily lives could no longer access it due to this,” Oladeji said.

Oladeji also told FIJ that some of the members are retired while some are late.

Adegboro said that the only way they could and have always contacted the IPPIS was to send a physical letter. He said they have neither an email nor a phone number to which they could forward any sort of complaint.

He also showed FIJ a letter they had drafted and were waiting to send to Abuja.

FIJ tried the phone number found on the IPPIS website, but it did not connect. There was also no email on the website that FIJ could write to.

FIJ tried the IPPIS hotline on Friday and Monday but no representative answered the phone calls, save for an automated voice that kept speaking for hours on end.

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Tunde Mukaila Mustapha     TIIDELab     Ibrahim Labaika     Mohammed Yisa     Fatai Olodo     Ibrahim Gambari     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Aiyedun     Kpotum Mohammed Baba     Dankaka     Galadiman Ngeri     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Suleiman Idris     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Elections     Mohammed Halidu     Oke-Odo     Baba Issa     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Kwara Basketball Association     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Apado     Kayode Issa     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     Kuliyan Geri     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     LABTOP     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Dairo Kunle Paul     Kwara State Television     Abubakar Baba     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Rihanat Ajia     Kola Olota     Sulyman Age AbdulKareem     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Folaranmi Aro     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Abdulganiyu Salahudeen     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Ilorin South     Amuda Bembe     Offa Poly     Dunmade     Okeose Christian Cementary     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Shoprite     Shonga     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Saliu Ajia     Idi-Ape     Offa Grammer School     Bola Tinubu     UTME     Ramadan     Igbaja     KWSUED     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Harafat E. Mukadam     Idowu Laro     Maigida Soludero Transit     Jalala     Lanwa     Gbenga Adebayo     Christopher Odetunde     Idofin     Akeem Olatunji    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

LABTOP     All Peoples Party     Bola Sagaya     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Micheal Imoudu     Ndama Al-hassan     AbdulRahman Saad     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Gbenga Adebayo     Ahmed Bayero     Halimat Yusuf     Oniwa     Jawondo     Abdulwahab Oba     Olupako Of Share     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Barakat Community Secondary School     SWAN     NAWOJ     Rebecca Bake     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     SARS     Sardauna     Razaq Atunwa     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Gurei     Ajia-Bako     Kwara Basketball Association     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Habeeb Saidu     Ajakaye     Tosho Yaqub     Lithium Deposit     Amosa     Bolakale Ayo     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Wahab Isa     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Olaiya Victor Mobolaji     AGM Professional Services     Ado Bayero     Kwasu     Akeem Olatunji     Offa Descendants Union     Ilorin Metro Park     Aisha Gobir     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Saad Belgore     Olaitan Buraimoh     Salake     Ilorin Durbar     Olatunji Ibrahim     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Farouk Salim     Eghe Igbinehi     Isiaka Yusuf     Adebara     Ndakene     Surajudeen Akanbi     Isiaq Khadeejah     KWASAA     Jaigbade Alao     Muhammed Akanbi     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Mary Arinde     RTEAN     Tafida Of Ilorin     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     SAPZ Project     Kwara 2023     COEASU