ASUU begins nationwide strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has started a two-week warning strike over issues relating to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System  as well as the   2009-2019 memorandum of understanding/action with the Federal Government.

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities has begun a nationwide strike. The President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, announced the commencement of the strike in Enugu, Enugu State, on Monday.

The strike which began on Monday followed the decision of the Federal Government to stop salaries of lecturers who have not enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). ASUU is opposed to the use of IPPIS.

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The strike was declared by the National Executive Committee of ASUU which ended its meeting in Enugu on Monday.
The strike action, according to the union, is also to compel the Federal Government to implement the agreements and resolutions of Memorandum of Action discussed in the 2009 ASUU-FGN agreement, the 2013 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the 2017 Memorandum of Action (MoU), all of which are yet to be implemented.

Ogunyemi, who briefed journalists after the National Executive Committee meeting in Enugu on Monday, revealed that the issues yet to be resolved by the Federal Government include the alleged imposition of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), poor funding and proliferation of State universities.

He added that the re-negotiation of the 2009 ASUU/FGN agreement, non-remittance of third party deduction of salaries of members and non-payment of February 2020 salaries amongst others., also dominated issues raised at the NEC meeting.
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The ASUU president also called on the Federal Government to rejig the security architecture to address daunting challenges in the country, infrastructural decay, inadequate power supply amongst other issues.