The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday declared that the Federal Government Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) had not achieved much in its effort to stem corruption but rather is driven primarily by neo-liberal as well as selfish interest and motivations.
In a statement signed by Chairman, ASUU, University of Benin (UNIBEN) Branch, Prof. Monday Omoregie and Secretary,
Fabian Amaechina, said the body’s members in seven federal universities as of May 27, 2020, who shunned enrolment into the IPPIS had still not been paid their February and March salaries against order that everyone be paid unconditionally.Omoregie alleged that all members of ASUU in federal universities, who refused to be signed into the IPPIS platform, have their salary withheld.
“This is in addition to the fact that all academic members of staff that are on sabbatical in federal universities have also not been paid,” Omoregie said.
In a related development, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has equally threatened to embark on total and indefinite strike action arising from unpaid allowances of members of the union.
The university workers lamented that four months after they enrolled into the compulsory IPPIS platform introduced by the Federal Government, they are yet to get their allowances.
In a statement signed by Chairman and Secretary of SSANU, University of Benin (UNIBEN) Branch, Broderick Osewa and Enoma Aigbovoriuwa, after an executive committee meeting of the body on Monday in Benin City, the SSANU members kicked against the removal of all allowances such as hazard allowance,
responsibility allowance, call duty allowance, shift duty allowance, among others, that were formerly enjoyed by members of the association and which were part of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) agreement the Federal Government voluntarily entered with SSANU in 2009.
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