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IPPIS: ASUU members ‘sneak to register’ as enrolment hits 937,000

 

Some members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have
reportedly begun enrolment in the Integrated Personnel Payroll
Integrated System (IPPIS) — as against the directive of the union.
Online medium, The Cable earlier reported that ASUU “mobilised for a
nationwide strike” over the federal government’s refusal to negotiate
its enrolment on the compulsory payment scheme.
The union had rejected the new system, which, according to the federal
government, would transparently manage the payment of the salaries of
all its workers.
ASUU had stated that the IPPIS compromises the autonomy of
universities and fails to address some “grey areas.”
But, according to The Punch, there are indications that some ASUU
members are surreptitiously enrolling on the platform — despite
directives from the union for its members to shun the process — as the
number of enrollments hits 937,000.
It is believed that the institutions, where lecturers are registering,
include the University of Calabar (UNICAL) in Cross Rivers and the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), in Enugu.
“The exercise has been highly successful. Many lecturers have been
sneaking into the venue to register,” a source at UNICAL was quoted to
have said, although John Edor, the institution’s ASUU chairman,
described them as only “a few isolated cases.”
The federal government on Wednesday, also said about 937,000 workers
had registered on the new payroll system as directed by President
Mohammadu Buhari.
The IPPIS registration started in universities on November 25 and ends
on December 7.
According to the federal government’s directive, workers who fail to
register within the stipulated period risk not being paid.
ASUU had accused the government of designing the IPPIS to suppress the
masses in the guise of anti-corruption and threatened “no pay no work”
— a move which was later suspended over further meetings with the
government.
Ahmed Idris, the accountant-general of the federation (AGF), had
described the union’s opposition as an “open endorsement of
corruption,” stating that the government remains unwavering on the
deadline for all MDAs to enrol on the platform.
The federal ministry of education had similarly claimed that “ASSU is
jittery” over its IPPIS enrolment as the new system would help expose
the financial atrocities and irregularities committed by their members
on FG’s payroll.

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