The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and the principal officers of the Senate have met with the a meeting behind closed doors with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities led by its President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi.
The meeting held behind closed doors, sources said, was to discuss the alternative designed by ASUU to the Integrated Personnel Payroll System by the Federal Government for the payment of civil servants’ salaries. The union had proposed the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) as an alternative to IPPIS.
ASUU and its members have been on strike since February this year. Among other grievances, the lecturers have opposed their migration to the IPPIS platform, noting that it negates the principle of university autonomy among others. The lecturers vowed to remain on strike until its grievances were addressed.
But, the Federal Government gave university lecturers up till November 2020 to comply with the directive to enlist on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) or be removed from the payroll.
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It gave the directive in its latest memo from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation with reference number OAGF/IPPIS/446/1/159, dated October 8, 2020, and signed by the Director, IPPIS, Nsikak Ben, for the AGF. The memo was directed at all federal universities in the country.
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While insisting that the directive was not for ASUU members, the union noted that it had reached an understanding with the President to develop its proposed University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), for testing and adoption for managing personnel information and payroll system in the universities.
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