Our position on IPPIS stands —ASUU

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said on Wednesday it would insist on the non-inclusion of its members in the Federal Government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

The National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, who disclosed this in Lagos, said the arrangement is alien even to the most advanced nations of the world.

The federal government had directed that public sector workers, including universities must be captured on the IPPIS to save cost and fight corruption by blocking leakages in its salary payment structure.

The move had since been resisted by the university lecturers.

He said: “ASUU has not changed its position and ASUU believes that whoever chooses to go for the IPPIS should also remember that a time will come when they will regret it.

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“Our stand against it is not for selfish reasons but we expect that things must be done right at all times.

“ASUU once said that the policies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Nigeria will make the people poorer, increase misery, want as well as compound our economic crisis. This was disclosed about 30 years ago.

“Today, we are have seen the manifestation of these crises and therefore, IPPIS is an aberration. It does not apply to universities because there is no university anywhere in the world where IPPIS is applied.

“Even in Ghana where they have something similar to the IPPIS, they went ahead to exclude the universities and that is why we are saying our own cannot be different.”

He insisted that IPPIS is designed for civil servants and not for the universities, noting that universities should be governed according to their laws.

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