The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU in the South-East has maintained that enrollment of its members into the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS will erode autonomy of universities.
The ASUU leaders, who spoke-in separately, said they were in total support of the position of the national leadership of the union.
ASUU chairman of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ebonyi, Egwu Ogugua, pointed out that members of the union were committed to the collective struggle.
Also, a university lecturer and human rights activist, Gilbert Ekuma, urged the Federal Government to toe the path of dialogue with ASUU, in order to avert disruption of academic activities in the nation’s federal universities.
Gilbert Ekuma, a university lecturer and human rights activist, urged the Federal Government to toe the path of dialogue with ASUU to avert disruption of academic activities in the nation’s federal universities.
The Zonal Coordinator of ASUU in Owerri zone, Uzo Onyebinama also maintained that IPPIS violated university autonomy and did not address the peculiarity inherent in the nature and structure of universities.
