… CPN, NACETEM, others listed
The ripples of the White Paper emanating from the
Stephen Oronsaye-led Presidential Committee on the Restructuring and
Rationalisation of Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies, has left uncertainty
to dominate the fate of public servants with the exposure of the latest
circular on its implementation, reports ITRealms.
This is coming as the Federal
Government may have stopped the payment of salaries of over 13 agencies
affected including the Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria
(CPN), National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Nigerian Financial
Reporting Council (NFRC) and Industrial Training Fund (ITF) among others.
ITRealms
also reports that this uncertainty was heightened on realization by the
affected agencies that their January salaries have been stopped through
official circular by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, to the Accountant-General
of the Federation (AGF) via the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information
System (IPPIS).
At the weekend, workers of the
affected agencies were seen in clusters discussing the development with
lamentations.
ITRealms
recalls that IPPIS is an integral part of President Jonathan transformation
agenda to centralised database system for public service in the country, to facilitate
unhindered payment of salaries directly to employee’s account after relevant
deductions and remittances, such as tax, cooperatives, pension, union dues among others.
But the letter dated November 13,
2014 titled “Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions that should not be provided
for in the 2015 budget” with reference No: SGF.12/S.11/C.9/T/3, Secretary to
the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, directed the
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy to stop funding
the affected agencies from the 2015 budget.
ITRealms reports that similar directive was issued to
the AGF on December 1, 2014.
Additionally, The Guardian reported
that the letter had read in part: “Recall that as part of the decisions of
Government in the White Paper on the Report of the Presidential Committee on
the Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government Parastatals,
Commissions and Agencies, Government accepted the recommendation that it should
cease funding the attached list of Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions with
effect from the 2015 Appropriation.
“Accordingly, I wish to request that
you take adequate steps to implement these decisions by ensuring that these
Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions cease receiving Government funding with
effect from the 2015 Appropriation. Attached herewith is a list of the
Agencies, Parastatals and Commissions Affected.”
ITRealms
notes that the White Paper rejected most of the recommendations of the Presidential
Committee on the Restructuring and Rationalisation of Federal Government
Parastatals, Commissions and Agencies. Government, just as it accepted some of
the provisions of the report, including the scrapping of CPN and reposition of
NACETEM from being funded centre to self-generating revenue entity.
Even as FG rejected the merger proposal
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Independent Corrupt
Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Code of Conduct
Bureau (CCB) to name a few. Whereas the Nigerian Financial Reporting Council
ceases to received government patronage through budget provision, the Industrial
Training Fund (ITF) has since 2014 been declared self-funded initiative.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) +The Guardian
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