The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has threatened to invoke its earlier resolution to enforce “No pay, No work” should government insists on withholding lecturers salaries over Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS.
ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi in an exclusive interview AIT says government is only pushing lecturers to stop going for lectures should they truncate ongoing talks over enrolment of academics on the IPPIS platform.
ASUU President was reacting to information AIT News gathered about an order by the Federal Government that salaries of all staff in its tertiary institutions who have refused to enroll on the IPPIS platform should be stopped immediately.
The affected Federal Government workers who will not be paid salaries from January are academic staff of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education
AIT also spoke exclusively with the President of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union, COEASU, Nuhu Ogirima, who confirmed that his members have been captured but are waiting to be enrolled into the IPPIS platform
The Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation in a letter signed by the Director of IPPIS, Olufehinti Olusegun dated, Tuesday, January 21, 2020, directed the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, not to release funds for the payment of January salaries of academic staff of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education yet to enroll on the IPPIS platform
The letter titled “Release of Funds for January Salary” reads in part. “I am directed to inform you that the preparation of January 2020 salary payroll and warrant of the federal tertiary institutions are on-gong and will be ready for submission on or before 29th of January, 2020.
It continues “… This is to give effect to the directive of the Federal Government that all Ministries, Departments and Agencies drawing personnel cost from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, CRF, should be enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS.
And it added that “In order to actualize this directive, you are please requested not to release the funds for payment of salaries to the tertiary institutions as their salaries will henceforth be paid on the IPPIS platform with effect from January 2020”.
