The Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU)
has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari was
not addressing its members when he declared that only those on the
IPPIS platform will get their salary.
This position was made known by ASUU National President,
Professor Biodun Ogunyemi in his reaction to
earlier reports that President Buhari has declared that lecturers
not captured on the IPPIS platform won’t get their salaries.
It will be recalled that Naija News earlier
reported that President Buhari had on Thursday while speaking
during the presentation of the 2021 National budget estimates to a
joint sitting of the National Assembly, stated that only
lecturers captured on the IPPIS platform will be paid
their salary.
IPPIS – Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information
System (IPPIS) is a centralized payroll platform
introduced by the Federal Government which it says will help it
monitor and block leakages in the payment of salaries and
wages.
However, the leadership of ASUU has rejected the migration of
its members to the platform. It also went ahead to recommend an
alternative to the government called Universities
Transparency and Accountability Solution
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(UTAS).
Therefore, Prof. Ogunyemi noted on Thursday that he is sure the
President’s statement during the budget presentation was not
targetted at ASUU members.
“I don’t think that statement was really meant to upset
ASUU. We have been at a meeting with Mr President, where we
presented that same issue and we left that meeting the
understanding that what we believe is better than IPPIS should be
appropriate,” Ogunyemi told Tribune in a telephone
interview.
He added that they already presented an alternative to the
government which is under, noting that he believes President Buhari
was talking about not paying money to those who do not exist
“but our members are in existence and we reached an
understanding with the government that an alternative to IPPIS
would be accepted.”
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