IPPIS: ASUU dares FG, stops members from govt pay roll
- ASUU has declared that its members would not turn up for registration into IPPIS
- The FG ordered that all members of ASUU should be captured into IPPIS during the registration exercise
- But ASUU president, Biodun Ogunyemi, said he has ordered members of the union to shun the exercise
Despite the directive by the federal government that all members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) should be enrolled compulsorily into the Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System (IPPIS), the union on Thursday, November 21, said that its members would not turn up for the exercise.
The Nation reports that the government had announced on Wednesday, November 20, that it would begin enrolment of lecturers into IPPIS next week.
Legit.ng gathered that the accountant general of the federation, Ahmed Idris, in an advertorial, said university teachers would be captured on the payroll system between November 25 and December 7.
But speaking on the directive, the national president of ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, in an interview on Thursday, November 21, in Abuja, insisted that no lecturer would enrol into the payroll system.
The union leader said ASUU had proposed an alternative payroll system for lecturers, adding that the alternative would be comparable to federal government’s proposed IPPIS.
He said university lecturers would have a follow-up meeting with the leadership of Senate to discuss the alternative they are proposing to the government.
According to him, the leadership of the Senate has asked the union to maintain the status quo, following the threat of a strike in October.
Ogunyemi said the government was expected to do same.
He said: “We have not changed our position. Our discussion with the National Assembly, particularly the Senate, is that we should come up with an alternative that will be juxtaposed with what government is presenting.
“As we have said, our alternative is in the works. We are working on the alternative that we proposed and we hope to have a follow-up meeting with the leadership of the Senate. “They have told us that the status quo should remain and we expect the ministry or the Accountant-General’s Office to also keep to that position."
Asked what would happen to ASUU members who would show up for enrolment on Monday, November 25, the ASUU president said: “We are processing it, as I said, and we will respond appropriately. We have our own mechanism for handling that. It is not for the media.”
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that ASUU accused President Buhari of being dictatorial over his directive that its members must be compulsorily enrolled in the IPPIS.
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