IPPIS: ASUU Says Payment System Strategies To Truncate Re-Negotiation Of 2009 Agreement - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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December 20, 2019
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU hascriticized the Federal Government of using the Integrated Personnel Payroll andInformation System, IPPIS to demoralise the re-negotiation of the 2009agreement and Memorandum of Action.
The ASUU chairman of Ahmadu Bello University, ABU Zaria,Rabi’u Nasiru, who made this known, said the Office of the Accountant-Generalof the Federation is the tool being used to achieve federal movement’s aim ofdistracting ASUU from continuing with the negotiation.
He noted that failure of the office to intimidate ASUUmembers to enroll in the IPPIS made the exercise a failure in the universities.
Nasiru added after the 2009 agreement of 7th February, 2019,it was decided that a visitation panel, through which excesses of theuniversity system are checked, would be sent to various Federal Universities by11th March, 2019, but that the panels are yet to be constituted by the federalgovernment despite the hues and shouts about fighting corruption.
The union advised the Federal Government to abstain from anyaction that would damage the University Sovereignty for the sake of futureNigerian generations.