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IPPIS: ASUU proffers way out of logjam with govt

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano State Zone, has suggested a way out of the impasse with the Federal Government of Nigeria over the implementation of the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Prof Mahmoud Lawan who spoke with newsmen on Friday in Kano said that the way out of the crisis was for the Federal Government to implement all outstanding provisions in the Feb. 7, 2019, FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action.

Lawan who also called on the Nigerian government to declare a five-year state of emergency in the education sector said that he wanted the allocation of 26 per cent of federal and state governments’ budget to education.

“The zone firmly believed that the way out of this crisis is for the Federal Government to implement all outstanding provisions in the Feb. 7, 2019, FGN/ASUU Memorandum of Action.

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“Conclude the Negotiation of the 2009 Agreement within six weeks; constitute a Visitation Panels to all federal universities and the outcomes be fully implemented,” Lawan said.

The comments by ASUU come days after President Muhammadu Buhari appealed to striking ASUU members to accept the IPPIS system.

The university teachers embarked on a two weeks warning strike on Monday to protest the Federal Government’s non-payment of some of their colleagues’ salaries for allegedly refusing to enroll in the IPPIS.

Buhari, who spoke at the 14th convocation ceremony of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, described the union protest against the payment system as “needless.”

Represented by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, the President said IPPIS was not meant to diminish the university autonomy.

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