We’re ready to forfeit December salary, says ASUU – TheNigerialawyer

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Port
Harcourt Branch, has said that its members were ready to forfeit
their December salary to stop the registration for the Integrated
Payroll and Personnel Information System.

Chairman of the branch of ASUU, Dr. Austen Sado, who made this
remark while speaking in an interview with our correspondent on
Wednesday, explained that the union would respond appropriately to
the claim in some quarters that lecturers who failed to enrol for
IPPIS might not get their December salary.

Sado stated that members of the union were ready to make
sacrifices in order to stop the violation of the university laws
through IPPIS.

The UNIPORT branch of ASUU chairman maintained that any attempt
to forcefully enrol ASUU members on IPPIS platform would amount to
victory achieved at a very high expense.

He said, “On IPIIS, as a union, ASUU has taken a decision, both
the branch and national, that IPPIS is a violation of the law. It
will not collaborate with anybody, who wishes to violate the laws
of the land. We are resolute on this.

“Again, any attempt to forcefully enrol our members will be
achieved by pyrrhic victory; it will a victory achieved at a very
high expense.

“If the December salary is the sacrifice, we are going to stop
this violation of the university law and autonomy, we are prepared
to make it. But I doubt it will come to that; if it actually comes
to that, our union will respond appropriately.”

Sado pointed out that ASUU was resolute and would continue to
maintain its stance on boycotting the exercise.