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Electronic Payment of Salaries of Staff to Nigerian Civil Servants Problems and Prospects

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ELECTRONIC PAYMENT OF SALARIES OF STAFF TO NIGERIAN CIVIL SERVANTS PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

T. A. NGEREBO-A,Ph.D
DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCE,
RIVERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
PORT HARCOURT,
E-MAIL: oniminp2002@yahoo.com

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SUNDAY C. NWITE
DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCE
EBONYI STATE UNIVERSITY – ABAKALIKI
E-mail: nwitewhite2006@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Electronic payment of salaries to staff is a new development in the country. Electronic payment is a process of making payments online through the use of ATM, Debit cards, credit cards, electronic cheque conversion. Electronic payment of salaries was introduced so as to monitor ghost workers among the civil servants, to prevent unnecessary expenses …show more content…

This has been due to four related factors:-
1. Proprietary closed network were developed by banks to handle large and increasingly internationally based payment system.
2. Large value payment are increasingly associated with foreign exchange and global security transactions thereby becoming divorced from underlying world trade.
3. Large value payment system were not designed nor are they cost effective for small value payments.
4. Paper – base-non-automated payment systems remain an established part of accepted business practice for varying institutional reasons thereby remaining in grained in economic system.

REASONS FOR ELECTRONIC PAYMENT
The reasons for making use of electronic payment to pay staff are:-
1. It helps in reducing the traffic in banking halls:- This is one of the reasons for introducing E-payments because it helps in reducing corruption and misconduct in the civil service world e.g. workers bribing accountants because they want to collect their salaries. (Nwite; 2000).
2. It also makes the work easier and relieves the banking staff of much work to be done since people can now withdraw their money through other means e.g. ATM, Debit card etc. (Jhingan 2004).
3. It saves time: Instead of queuing up in the bank to check account balance and to withdraw money, an SMS alert would have been sent and the customer can make withdrawal anywhere. (Becks;

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