The Academic Staff Union of Universities has rejected the Federal Government’s plan for Integrated Personnel Payroll System on her members nationwide.
At an emergency National Executive Council meeting of the union on Sunday, the leaders agreed that the leadership of the union at the university levels should begin mobilisation of members for an action against the Muhammadu
Buhari government.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed that any worker not on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, would no longer receive salary.
The ASUU Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter, Prof. Deji Omole, said while the union was not against accountability, it would resist attempt by the government to violate existing laws and university autonomy.
According to him, ASUU has offered to help the Federal Government to design the appropriate template that will factor in the peculiarities of university lecturers in the IPPIS but the government seems bent on using the World Bank-designed exploitative template.
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He claimed the government template would enslave intellectuals given that it did not make provisions for payment of arrears of promotion, study leave allowance, responsibility allowance, among others.
Omole further added that the Federal Government template was designed to retire university lecturers above 60 years against the new policy where professors retired at 70 years.
He insisted that the forceful imposition of the IPPIS on university workers was illegal adding that government should not be allowed to destroy public universities under the guise of fighting corruption.
