Badeh: FG probes military payroll

Finance Minister, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has directed that an investigation be conducted into the payroll of the Air Force, the Navy and the Army by Continuous Audit Team of the Federal Government following revelations on an alleged diversion of N558.2 million in the ongoing trial of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshall Alex Badeh. 

The Continuous Audit team is saddled with the responsibility of scrutinizing the payroll of the three services which were yet to be included on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) so as to ensure that leakages and loopholes were blocked.
The exercise would be conducted pending the biometric capturing and migration of the forces’ payroll to the IPPIS in line with the policy of the Federal Government to clean up the payroll of all public sector employees.
The development was confirmed in a statement by the Director of Press in the Finance Ministry, Salisu Na’Inna Dambatta. Adeosun said the measure became necessary as part of the change mantra of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, which was meant to restore the culture of transparency, accountability and control in the management of public funds.
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