FG Tells ASUU NO IPPIS, No Pay

The Federal Government has informed the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU that there won’t be any pay order without the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.

Meanwhile, ASUU members in federal universities across the country, in separate interviews on Wednesday, vowed to shun registration for IPPIS, which would start on Monday and end on December 7, 2019.

It could be recalled that the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, in an advertorial on Wednesday, had directed all staff of federal universities and colleges of education “to present themselves for enrolment for the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.”

The leadership of the union has vowed that its members would not follow the directive of the federal government adding that, the Federal government was becoming dictatorial.

The Chairman of the union at the UI, Prof. Deji Omole said “We refuse to be harassed or intimidated. We are not strangers in this country. We are veritable stakeholders. We cannot be harassed. We have told them what to do. Let the government come back to the negotiation table and let’s discuss the grey areas.

“Forceful enlistment will not solve the problem. We are not disturbed but we are worried, government is getting dictatorial. A supposedly democratic government is getting dictatorial.”

In the same vein, his UNIPORT counterpart Dr Austen Sado said “We are not dignifying that directive with any response because we have given them our views. We had an interaction with the Senate and the Senate asked them (the FG) to make sure that they explore all avenues in resolving it.

“If they (the FG) want to escalate it, there is no problem. But I can assure you that our members will not make themselves available for any capture. We have already shown our disdain for this illegality because it is an illegal policy.

“Our members took a resolution and said that it should be communicated to government that it (IPPIS) is a violation of the laws of the university and so, we are all standing together on the account that this (IPPIS) is a violation of the law and we will not help that violation by any form of compliance.

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“Government cannot violate the laws of the land under the guise that they are fighting corruption. If any of our members turns up, we have an ethics/grievance committee that deals with issues of violation of our codes.

“Such members would be tried through the provisions of the constitution at the appropriate time. We will not tell people what we will do to any errant member. We know what to do with our rules and we will get our members to be in line with whatever we are doing.”