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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the alleged forceful application of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) on its members by government as “a deliberate ploy to cripple the Nigerian university system.”
Benin Zonal Coordinator of the union, Professor Fred Esumeh, in statement in Benin City, the Edo State capital, blamed their strike on government’s “refusal to implement the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreements and the 2013 Memorandum of Association (MoU) the government voluntarily entered with the union and other demands which were aimed at addressing the rot in the country’s education system.”
He urged the Federal Government to revisit the issues and embrace the proposed University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) developed by ASUU members to “pave the way for the smooth running of public universities in Nigeria.”
Esumeh added that the “irregularities experienced by affiliate unions in Nigerian universities like SAANU, NAAT and NASU members in the payment of February 2020 salaries who enrolled on the IPPIS have lend credence to ASUU’s position that IPPIS has failed all forms of integrity test as the platform or software for the payment of university workers.
