Nigeria’s Accountant General of the Federation, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo said the introduction of e-payment is aimed at eliminating payment bureaucracy associated with handling cash transfers and check payments. Dankwambo also noted that this development will strengthen the efficiency of doing business with the government and also help to check corruption.
It would be recalled that FG had in the last quarter of last year made it mandatory that payments to personnel and contractors would from January 2009, be made electronically, according to the Accountant General of the Federation.
Speaking at the visit to the NigComSat Limited head-quarter at Lugbe Abuja, FCC chairman, sub-committee on Com-munication and Broad-casting Alhaji Muhammad Ari Gwaska who made the plans known said its time for Nigerian workers to have an electronic management systems.
Speaking on the e-payment directive given by the Federal Government to all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to henceforth pay all contractors and staff salaries through e-payment using banks, Agu said government needs to establish an e-invoicing portal to monitor compliance.
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Further, all cheques-in-transit must get to either the Central Bank or the commercial banks by June or they will not be honoured. These disclosures were made yesterday in Abuja by the Accountant-General of the Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, who said they were in pursuit of government’s e-payment initiative to curb corruption in government businesses.