The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) has said that it does not issue any directive to workers to change their financial institutions registered on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform for their salary accounts.
The Office, in a statement issued by the Director (Press and Public Relations, Mr. Bawa Mokwa, on Monday to clarify its position on the issue, maintained that the IPPIS Office had been giving utmost priority to the well-being of workers, and will not issue any directive that will mislead, misguide or cause unnecessary panic among them.
The OAGF explained that whenever there was an application for change of salary account, such had always been a personal decision of the concerned worker, adding that the IPPIS Office has not issued any general directive on the change of their banks in the IPPIS platform as there is no reason to do so.
The Office, therefore, charged the financial institutions to adopt necessary strategies to boost customers’ confidence and guarantee efficient fulfillment of their obligations to persons whose salaries are domiciled in their vaults and Nigerians in general.
According to the Director, there are agencies that are statutorily mandated to determine the health as well as viability of financial institutions and expressed optimism that those agencies are playing their statutory roles as required by their enabling laws.
The Office further advised workers that may have genuine reasons to change their salary accounts on the IPPIS platform to follow the official procedures.
