The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has threatened that the union will begin nationwide strike if the Federal Government failed to remit the salaries of its members at the end of this month (October).
The union said that the strike would reinforce members’ rejection of the Integrated Payment Personnel Information System (IPPIS), allegedly being forced on its members by the Federal Government.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has threatened that the union will begin a nationwide strike if the Federal Government fails to remit the salaries of its members at the end of this month (October).
The union said that the strike would reinforce members’ rejection of the Integrated Payment Personnel Information System (IPPIS), allegedly being forced on its members by the Federal Government.
The union insisted on “no pay, no work” while rejecting the proposed enrolment of its members on the controversial IPPIS platform.
The union’s Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Ade Adejumo, who spoke on behalf of its members, described the IPPIS as a new and strange regime of finance about to be forced on public universities in Nigeria.
Adejumo insisted that IPPIS violated the provisions of the law and that the union was appalled that government was losing sight of the law on the power vested in the councils to dispense finances of the universities.
He stressed that circulars from Federal ministries shall be deemed invalid to the extent that they are inconsistent with the laws and regulations of universities and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
News making the rounds suggests that the ASUU officials have had a backroom meeting with the leadership of the National assembly. However, the details of the meeting are undisclosed.
Source: Daily Post Newspapers
