Again, ASUU Tackles FG on IPPIS
POLITICS DIGEST – The Owerri zonal leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the Federal Government’s position that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) was a tool against corruption as blatantly false.
The union, however, maintained that on the contrary, IPPIS would promote and encourage corruption.
The academics further stated that claims by the Minister for Finance and National Planning, Hajia Zaina Shamsuna Ahmed that IPPIS had flushed out 70,000 ghost workers from the payroll of the Federal Government was unsubstantiated ‘by any empirical evidence and is probably fraudulent’.
In a press conference at the ASUU secretariat, Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), the Owerri zonal Coordinator of the Union, Comrade Uzo Onyebinama regretted that the Federal government had wilfully reneged on agreements it freely entered into with the union which occasioned the ongoing two-week warning strike that commenced on March 9, 2020.
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Onyebinama said: “The warning strike is an attempt by the union to draw attention to the breach of the 2019 Memorandum of Action (MoA) by the federal government and to call on all men of goodwill to prevail on the government to honour its agreement in order to forestall a major crisis in our University system.”
“The issues outstanding in the 2019 Moa include the release of outstanding balances of the Revitalization Fund for Universities, constitution of Visitation Panels to Federal Universities, payment of outstanding arrears of earned academic allowances as well as mainstreaming of the earned academic allowances into the universities’ budgets, among other things.”
According to Onyebinama, the brewing crisis in the universities was further compounded by the avoidable controversy over the enrollment of academic staff into IPPIS.
He noted, however, that “the futile attempt by agents of the Federal Government to blackmail the Union over the resistance to IPPIS, on the guise that IPPIS is anti-corruption oriented is scandalous. IPPIS as it is, is pro-corruption. In addition to its manifest shortcomings in addressing the peculiarities of the University system, its violation of the autonomy and localisation of our Universities, it does not border on transparency and accountability.”
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