IPPIS is Diversionary – ASUU
Chima Azubuike, Gombe
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it would not call off its eight-month strike even if the Federal Government withdraws the Integrated Payroll and Information System as a means of payment, adding that it is diversionary.
The Coordinator, ASUU Bauchi zone, Prof. Lawan Abubakar stated this on Wednesday at the Gombe State University.
He said Federal Government was feeding the public with lies about the strike, stating that the main reason for the strike was the government’s inability to keep previous agreements and not about IPPIS as being propagated by the government.
He said the union would not call off the strike until all its demands were met by the Federal Government.
He said, “For the avoidance of doubt, the issues in contention remain revitalisation fund for public universities, arrears of Earned Academic Allowances, visitation to universities, proliferation of state universities and issues of governance in them, and conclusion of the renegotiation of the 2009 FGN-ASUU Agreement.
“The later issue of IPPIS was a new introduction and a diversion as no university in the world runs such a system. How can the public believe that government does not have money to fund rehabilitation of 93 universities but is raising N380b to prosecute Boko Haram in 2021?”
Abubakar added that Minister of Labour and Employment Dr. Chris Ngige and the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) Alh. Ahmed Idris have continued to throw spanners in the wheel of progress of concerted efforts aimed at amicable resolution of the impasse.
