AGF, ASUU ARGUE OVER PERCENTAGE OF LECTURERS WHO HAVE ENROLED IN IPPIS, AS STRIKE LOOMS OF INSISTANCE BY FG TO CAPTURE ALL WORKERS

Nothing will more distorting for Nigerian Students in Public Universities should their lecturers go on strike in the new year 2020

This is because It appears the federal government is less concerned about any form of threats by the academic staff union of universities, ASUU, over the implementation of the INTERGRATED Payroll and personnel information system, IPPIS

 While the Federal Government keep dismissing as unfounded, the objection of ASUU to IPPIS, the Lecturers have kept insisting the policy is a fraud

Ait News Gathered that a  statement from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation said AGF, Ahmed Idris, has assured the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities , who visited him in Abuja that the lecturers will be captured

The AGF according to the statement, directed the vice chancellors to get their lecturers to state “all their peculiarities and promised to go by the rules of engagement recognized by the government in the universities.

Idris said during many meetings with the universities, the federal government has assured them that the policy was not to take away the autonomy of the universities, but to make the management of personnel more efficient.

He stated that the practice where univarsities recruit workers not minding whether their budget would accommodate such employment was responsible for the issue of shortfall in personnel revenue and IPPIS will help solve the problem

According to the AGF, 8,146 academic and 86, 844 non-academic staff of federal universities have been captured into the IPPIS platform as of the last count, which represent more than 70 per cent of university workers

In a swift reaction, ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi said not upto 10 percent of lecturers, who mostly are not union members have registered on IPPIS

ASUU president, Professor Ogunyemi Said IPPIS is being used by Federal Government to enrich Their Cronies, if not why asking people to come for capturing at just one location with disregard for Hard-earn university autonomy

Ogunyemi said ASUU's alternative to IPPIS, the Universities Transperancy And Accountability Solution, UTAS is more credible to solve the problems Government claims to be addressing with IPPIS.

The ASUU president insists that should December or any other salary is withheld Over IPPIS, the lecturers will not hesitate to shutdown lecture halls