PTAD deletes 15,600 ghost pensioners from payroll – Ikeazor

. Verifi es 5,000 NNN, NDA, NICON Insurance retirees

By AbdulRaheem Aodu Kaduna

Th e Pension Transitional Administration Directorate (PTAD) has discovered and removed 15,600 ghost pensioners from the federal government payroll following verifi cation exercises as part of eff orts to sanitizing the payment of pensioners, Executive Secretary PTAD, Sharon Ikeazor has said.
She said about 5,000 pensioners from New Nigerian Newspapers, Nicon Insurance, Nigerian ReInsurance and civilian retirees of Nigerian Defence Academy are undergoing fi nal verifi cation that started on Monday in Kaduna, Lagos and Abuja scheduled to end on Friday, she added that the pensioners once verifi ed will enter the federal government pension payroll within four months Th e PTAD boss told Blueprint yesterday when she visited the NDA Staff Secondary School Kaduna where the verifi cation is ongoing that the ghost pensioners were removed from the payroll in December 2016 because their accounts were not connected to any BVN numbers.
“When we took the ghost pensioners out of the payroll, there was no much outcry and only few were actually genuine cases and they were put back on the payroll,” she said.
Speaking further, she said that the present verifi cation whichis taking place simultaneously will not end there as the process is continuous, adding that pensioners can visit their offi ce in Abuja and Kaduna to complete their verifi cation.
“New Nigerian Newspapers is a special case, we have less than 700 pensioners in New Nigerian.
We are doing it batch by batch.
We are expecting 998 pensioners in Kaduna from the three agencies and about 5,000 in total.
“We are conducting the entire verifi cation for civil servants, police, parastatals and para military.
Civil service verifi cation is expected to be concluded in 2018.
We just began that of parastatals and hope to conclude it in 2018.
“After the verifi cation there would be computation then after four months they would be on the payroll because it has to go through audit process before payment is made electronically.
We maintain a TSA account with CBN and pensioners are paid from that account through e-payment,” she said.
 

 

 

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