The Head of Service of the Federation (HoSF), Folashade Esan, has indicted desk officers of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) in Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs) of government for perpetrating fraud in recruitment exercises.

She, however, denied getting 10 per cent job slots from MDAs.

Ms Esan said this while appearing before the House of Representatives committee investigating job racketeering in MDAs and mismanagement of IPPIS in Abuja on Monday. 

She said many MDAs violated waivers in job recruitment, adding that she also discovered that some IPPIS staff were perpetrating evil in MDAs.

Ms Esan said once the HoSF discovered such foul play in enrollment, it immediately informed the ICPC. 

She said aside from reporting such officers, the HoSF immediately swung into action by commencing disciplinary action against those officers, adding that several officers had been disciplined for perpetrating such. 

Rep. Wole Oke (PDP-Osun), a committee member, had posed a question to the HoSF, asking if it was true that the HoSF got 10 per cent of job recruitment allocation from MDAs.

Ms Esan also Responded, “I want to categorically state that the HoSF renders service to MDAs, and we do not request such a percentage from any MDA.” 

“The first time I heard it, I asked the director in charge that I must not hear such a thing any longer and that if they were doing it before I came, it must not happen again.”

On the issue of waiver for employment, Ms Esan said the HoSF often went around to monitor such, noting that though the HoSF could not be in every establishment, it ensured proper monitoring.

“Some MDAs are in the habit of employing more than the waiver given, but the HoSF always ensures that it is difficult to enrol them on IPPIS as a mechanism to checkmate such MDAs.

“Many agencies have violated waivers, and we have discovered that some IPPIS staff are perpetrating evil in the MDAs.

“Once we discovered foul play in the enrollment, we informed ICPC and started disciplinary action against those officers.

“We have several officers that we have disciplined for perpetrating fraud in MDAs,’’ she said.

Ms Esan said when the HoSF gave universities a waiver for recruitment, it often discovered that schools usually prioritised non-academic above academic staff. 

She added that the National University Commission agreed that such an instance was becoming a big problem.

(NAN)