IPPIS a breach of varsity teachers’ pact with Nigerian government – ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday reiterated its rejection of the newly introduced Integrated Personnel Payroll System (IPPIS), saying the system is a breach of the agreement on university autonomy, the body national leadership signed with the government in 1992, 2001 and 2009.

The ASUU Coordinator, Lagos Zone, Prof. Olusiji Sowande, who stated this at a press conference held at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, said the 1992 agreement the union had with the federal government held that “universities should be allowed to operate in compliance with their enabling laws, rules, and regulations in conformity with due process and within the laws of the land”

He also insisted that the 2001 agreement stipulated that “circulars from ministries shall be deemed invalid to the extent that they are inconsistent with the laws and regulations of the universities and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

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Sowande added: “The 2009 agreement said in clear terms that each university shall arrange its own cost-saving measures.”

He said ASUU was not opposed to accountability and transparency in the handling of public funds, adding that the union will resist any method that violates their agreement with the government and sets aside the enabling laws, regulations, and statutes of the universities.

“It is mischievous and irresponsible of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to assert that ASUU’s opposition to the forceful enrolment of university staff into IPPIS is an open endorsement of corruption in the Nigerian university system.

“The AGF who superintend over the ‘Nigerian corruption headquarters’ should be busy in cleaning the rot in his office where nothing happens unless something exchanges hands,” the university don stated.

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