FG assures civil servants of December salaries

The Federal Government on Monday assured workers that payment of December salaries would take effect soon as it had started processing it since Friday.

This is contained in a statement issued by Ministry of Finance, signed by Mr Paul Nwabuikwu, spokesman to the Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

"The processing of the December salaries started on Friday and is continuing today.

"Civil servants should therefore get the salaries in their accounts shortly.

"Also being processed are the salaries of the staff of 14 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) where there has been a misuse of the salary budgets to pay promotion arrears and other allowances,'' it said .

According to the statement, the IPPIS system, which was programmed to reject irregular procedures, had locked the MDAs in question out of the system, leading to the unfortunate delays in the payment of salaries.

It, however, added that action has been taken to rectify the problem and the salary arrears of the staff of the affected MDAs would be paid along with those of their colleagues in other agencies.