ASUU strike: Only workers on IPPIS will receive salaries – Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari has said that only workers captured on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform will be paid their salaries.

He said this during the presentation of the proposed 2021 Budget of N13trn to the National Assembly on Thursday.

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Before presenting the proposed budget, Buhari gave a breakdown of the performance of the 2020 budget. According to the President, the decision not to pay federal workers not captured on the IPPIS was to reduce personnel cost.

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This is coming amidst the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities over IPPIS and other matters.

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He said, “Personnel cost is still our largest single item of expenditure. In the seven months to 31st July 2020, it accounted for 34 percent of total Federal Government spending and is projected at 33 percent of 2021 expenditure.

“To check the incidence of payments to non-existent personnel and unauthorised allowances, only Federal staff that have been captured on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (‘IPPIS’) platform will receive salaries.

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“All agencies have been directed to ensure that they obtain all necessary approvals before embarking on any fresh recruitment. Any breach of these directives will be severely sanctioned.”

Recall that members of ASUU had embarked on an indefinite strike on March 23 over the implementation of the IPPIS and failure of the Federal Government to honour its 2019 agreement.

ASUU had rejected IPPIS, insisting that it violates university autonomy. Instead, the University Transparency and Accountability Solution was developed as an alternative to IPPIS by the varsity lecturers.

President of the union, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, had said that IPPIS did not take into consideration the peculiar situation of lecturers, adding that the platform had muddled up members’ salaries.

He also said that “IPPIS will bring universities under direct civil service control and the system does not work that way. That kind of system will kill innovation, creativity, academic freedom and autonomy.”

 

 

 

 

 

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