Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP says it has observed a trend in the delay in payment of staff salaries across Federal Tertiary Institutions in the country in the last eight months.
A statement signed by ASUP president, Shammah Kpanja says the new trend of subjecting staff of these institutions to the mental torture of enduring indeterminate periods of uncertainty concerning the release of the severely devalued pittance now referred to as salaries coincides with the transition of the tertiary institutions from the IPPIS payment platform to the GIFMIS platform.
ASUP expressed dissatisfaction in the consistent placing of the blame on the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, attributing the same to delay in the funding of the different institutions for the salaries over these eight months.
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The polytechnic lecturers say they are led to believe that the only plausible reason for the deliberate torture is the low value placed on the academic community by the government and that eight months is too long a trial period for the transition from IPPIS to GIFMIS.
ASUP used the statement to condemn what it describes as undeserved treatment of academic staff while threatening to yield to members’ demand for a resumption of suspended industrial action.
(Editor: Okechukwu Eze)
