The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU plans to shut-down academic activities in universities in demonstration over the October deadline for employees of Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs to enroll in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information Systems, IPPIS.
The Federal Government, through a Presidential directive had ordered all MDAs to enroll on IPPIS, with a warning that agencies that fail to meet the October deadline would not be paid their salaries.
ASUU Coordinator, Ibadan Zone, Ade Adejumo, the union’s Chairman, and Investments Secretary, Deji Omole and Ayo Akinwole at a news conference, criticized the idea behind the IPPIS saying it failed to capture the peculiarities of Nigerian universities. They also said weaknesses in the IPPS would end into serious problems for members of ASUU when they attain 60-years of age.
Adejumo stated that the IPPIS violates the Universities Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2003.
In same vein, the Union is expected to today, Monday meet with the leadership of the National Assembly as part of its opposition to the controversial payment System.
