IPPIS: ASUU Urges FG To Adopt University Transparency/Accountability Solution - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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February 17, 2020
TheAcademic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has called on the Federal Governmentto adopt the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, UTASsuggested by the union.
TheASUU President Biodun Ogunyemi who made the call in Abuja, noted that there wasnowhere in the world where IPPIS is being implemented that universities are putunder the civil service, then why should Nigeria be an exception.
Itwould be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed that universitylecturers must enroll on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel InformationSystem, IPPIS.
ASUUhad rejected IPPIS, insisting that it violates university autonomy and proposedthe UTAS as an alternative to government’s centralised payroll system of IPPIS.
Accordingto Ogunyemi, the matter as far as the government side is concerned is stillwhere they left it. He noted that there was nowhere in the world where IPPIS isbeing implemented that universities are put under the civil service, then whyshould Nigeria be an exception.