The House of Representatives has summoned the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Accountant General of the Federation, to appear before it on Thursday to explain the delays in remitting deductions from workers salaries to the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria.
The ad hoc committee investigating non remittance of deduction from workers salaries for the National House Fund (NHF) issued the summon on Tuesday at the resumed hearing.
Appearing before the ad hoc committee, Director in Charge of the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS), Emma Deko said IPPIS was not responsible for the payment of salaries or workers, but only processes the payment.
He said while IPPIS prepares the salaries for only federal workers, government appointed four gateways that are responsible for the payment of the salaries to workers.
Deko stated: “There are four payment gateways engaged by government to do the payment. Nigeria Interbank Payment System (NIPS), E-Transact, Remita and GIFMIS. These are not situated within IPPIS. We only process and they have the gateway to remit these monies.
“Why I am saying this is because the records of remittance is not with us. Since this instruction was sent to me by my boss, we have been trying to reach these people, and till this morning, we are, even our staff were online till 2am, 3am to get these records so that we can answer this Honourable committee. We have been getting them in piece-meal.”
“So, as I speak, we were not able to get everything coherently and, totally based on what this honourable committee wants, but we are on it. We are bound to respond to this Committee totally.
“We are committed to that totally. We are assuring you that, we will do everything within our power to respond to the request of this Committee. We’ll not hinder this committee’s work. No. We are accountants and accountants keep records.”