University Workers To protest Over IPPIS, Others

University workers under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) say they will commence a three-day national protest on Tuesday.

The directive to embark on the protest was arrived at on Friday night at a meeting held by the leadership of the two unions in Abuja from which a communique was endorsed by Comrade Mohammed Ibrahim, the National President of SSANU, and Comrade Peters Adeyemi, the General Secretary of NASU.

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The unions said the protest was to express dissatisfaction against the government’s way of handling some issues, including the controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS.

The JAC listed issues that necessitated the directive to include inconsistencies in IPPIS payments; non-payment of Earned Allowance; non-payment of arrears of new minimum wage; delay in the renegotiation of the FGN)NASU/SSANU 2009 Agreements.

Others include non-payment of retirement benefits to former members; non-constitution of visitation panels to universities; poor funding of universities; teaching staff usurping the headship of non-teaching units among others.

The committee urged union leaders across the country to use Monday to sensitise members on the need for the protest.