POOR CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION LOOMS FOR UNIVERSITY LECTURERS OVER IPPIS

 Nigeria' s tertiary institutions may soon experience looked up classrooms over the refusal of some academic staff to allow themselves to be captured in the integrated payrol and personnel  information system, IPPIS

But before that strike possibility, they may be having a bleak and cashless 2019 christmas, should government holds back their December salaries over refusal to enrol in the intergrated payroll and personnel information system,IPPIS.

Information from the IPPIS Directorate in the Office Of the Accountant General insist that there is a presidential Directive for all public servants to enroll in the scheme including lecturers

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his report examines the pros and cons of IPPIS and what is needed to arrive at a meeting point between lecturers and government in efforts to avert another round of strikes in Nigeria's ivory towers

It has been a running battle between the Nigerian government and workers in tertiary institutions over the refusal of the academic staff unions to enrol in IPPIS. 

The unions are those in the universities, Polytechnics and colleges of education.

The crux of the matter is that government sees IPPIS as an instrument to help iďentify ghost workers, check over and double payment as well as tackle corruption, while the academic staff unions believe it's a ploy to stop certain allowances and benefits during sabbatical, as visiting lecturers and a few other peculiarities

For The Universities, it is nothing more than discrediting the 'hard-fought' university Autonomy, which allows university governing boards to employ and pay certain allowances

No wonder ASUU is proposing  the UNIVERSITY TRANSPARENCY ACCOUNTABILITY SOLUTION, UTAS as an alternative to IPPIS .

In  a bid to coax the teachers to buy into the IPPIS policy, government threatened to withhold December salary of staff who refuse to enroll

Sources in the IPPIS office say the enrolement of workers is a presidential directive

In spite of ASUU's threats, filers abound that some staff are secretly enrolling in the Scheme

The story about the IPPIS in the university use to be the same with the polytechnics and colleges of education, until the colleges succumbed to presure

ASUU says it has Bankrolled UTAS an alternative to IPPIS to about 40 percent completion.

ASUU succeeded in the past with such moves, for example the creation of  University pension company, outside the numerous licenced and available Pension fund administrators 

Will ASUU succeed this time with UTAS while other public employees enrol in IPPIS or are students going to resume in January 2020 with a strike by lecturers.

It remains to be seen.