ASUU, Senate Meet On Way Forward Over IPPIS Impasse
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, led other lawmakers to engage leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Monday on the enrolment of the union’s members in the disputed Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
Recall that during his budget presentation last Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari had said only staff members who have been captured on the IPPIS platform would receive their salaries.
ASUU’s meeting with the Senate leadership was a follow up of the earlier meeting held in October last year.
President of ASSU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said the union had promised Nigerians that it would develop an alternative platform to IPPIS for its members.
At the meeting held to showcase the innovation and platform developed to the leadership of the Senate, he said it was also designed to discuss issues relating on non- implementation of its various agreements earlier reached with the Federal Government.
But ASUU insisted that it would not be cowed by President Buhari’s threats on over their homegrown template tagged: University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS)
The leadership of ASUU had presented UTAS to the Federal Government five years ago for which the government agreed to partner with the union by bringing engaging three persons only to recant at the last minute.
However, Ogunyemi insisted ASUU would not shift grounds on UTAS, which he said, Lawan appreciated.