The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says its members will not submit their Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) as part of conditions for the payment of their February and March salaries.
Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari had on Tuesday ordered the immediate and unconditional payment of withheld salaries of lecturers who had refused to enroll with the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige who made the disclosure said the lecturers will be paid once their vice chancellors update their BVN.
However, on Wednesday, the National President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the condition did not go down with his members.
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According to him, ASUU had been told that the Federal Government has approved the payment of the withheld salaries to its members.
He said: “We appreciate Mr. President for doing that. However, withholding February and March salaries was unnecessary in the first place.
“In the second place, the issue is the condition attached to it, which does not go down well with our members, which is the supply of their BVN. Our members are being paid in the past without asking for their BVN.
“So, we have reasons to suspect that this is an indirect way to get us back to IPPIS, which our members rejected. These are things we are going to clarify with the government whenever we are called for a meeting.”
