The Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU)
has laid fresh demands before the federal government before
academic activities can resume in Nigerian Universities.
This was disclosed by the National President of ASUU,
Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, during a press conference
held at the Gwagwalada campus of the University of Abuja.
retwtr.com recalls universities in the
country have been on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic as
well as the ASUU strike.
The academic union has now declared that its members will not
return to the classrooms except the government meets all of its
demands.
As part of its demands, Prof Ogunyemi disclosed that ASUU has
unveiled and presented the University Transparency and
Accountability Solution (UTAS) as an alternative to the
Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information
System (IPPIS) introduced by the Federal Government.
He added that the software has been demonstrated to the Minister
of Education and senior management staff of the Ministry of
Education, including the Executive Secretary of the National
Universities Commission, Prof. Abdulrasheed
Abubakar, on Monday.
It is our sincere hope that the government would not renege
on its promise because the benefits of UTAS to the university
system (both public and private) cannot be found in any other
software in Nigeria today. Now that the union is close to meeting
the government’s demand on an alternative to IPPIS, it is our
sincere hope that the substantive issues in the ongoing strike
action would be given the desired attention,”
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he noted.
He also noted that the body wants the five months’ salaries of
its members at the University of Maiduguri and the Michael Okpara
University of Agriculture, Umudike, and other institutions that are
still withheld by the Accountant-General of the Federation on
account of non-registration on IPPIS to be paid to them.
“Thousands of other academics across the Universities are
suffering the same fate. So, while we counsel that government at
both the federal and state levels must meet the Taskforce specified
guidelines for reopening of educational institutions, we insist
that all the arrears of the withheld salaries of our members in
federal and state Universities must be paid immediately to pave for
further discussion on the outstanding issues in the Memorandum of
Action of February 7 2019,” Ogunyemi declared.
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