The Tutorial Employees Union of Universities has stated the Federal Authorities continues to be utilizing the Built-in Personnel Payroll Data System to pay lecturers salaries.
Nationwide President, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, in an interview, complained that the FG had but to implement its promise to take away tertiary establishments from the Built-in Payroll and Personnel Data System platform, including that the February wage was paid by IPPIS.
In December 2023, the FG introduced that tertiary establishments together with universities, polytechnics, and faculties of training had been exempted from the platform.
The IPPIS unveiled in 2006, is a authorities initiative geared toward streamlining payroll for presidency ministries, departments, and companies.
It was later prolonged to universities and faculties however was vehemently rejected by the employees who launched into a protracted strike in 2020, and 2021,
They complained of a number of irregularities related to IPPIS.
Osodeke added that not one of the union’s calls for had been fulfilled.
In September 2023, the federal government introduced an upward assessment of the salaries of tertiary establishment staff by 35 per cent and backdated to January 2023.
It additionally promised to pay 4 months’ salaries out of the seven and half months withheld salaries in the course of the 2022 nationwide strike.
Another calls for of ASUU, together with fee of Earned Tutorial Allowance, and the unprogressive renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN settlement had at varied instances led to incessant strikes within the government-owned universities.
He maintained that there had been no official communication from FG, including that every little thing was at a standstill.
Talking on whether or not ASUU would embark on a strike to agitate their calls for, Osodeke stated, “Our member will resolve, that’s the reason we have now been occurring strike, even for wage assessment, but, nothing has been carried out. Our February wage was paid with IPPIS, so nothing has been carried out or applied. The federal government ought to do the needful and implement all of the agreements that they had with us.”
Osodeke additionally stated that ASUU would quickly make identified its resolution by a press launch.