The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government have again clashed over the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System with the government saying the payment platform is inevitable.
The President of ASUU, Mr Biodun Ogunyemi has alleged that the IPPIS was fraught with corruption, adding that some officials in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation were involved in what he called “bribe-for-salaries.”
Ogunyemi was reacting to a statement by the Director of Press of the Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, who said that ASUU could not avoid the IPPIS.
He stated that the union was ready to take AGF office “headlong on the corrupt and corruptive platform called the IPPIS.”
He said “These fraudulent practices and more are happening at a time ASUU members who went on sabbatical leave and approved adjunct appointments are being denied their legitimate salaries because they are unprepared to play ball. Officials at the OAGF have been playing hide and seek, claiming to address the problem at the instance of the Minister of Labour and Employment. They are busy shuffling names – pay some lecturers’ salaries this month and remove their names from the vouchers next month, all in a bid to frustrate professors and other categories of academics to the point of begging and compromising on their rightful entitlements. If they want to declare war on our members for asking for their dues, they should be prepared for the consequences of their unwarranted provocation because injury to any ASUU member is an injury to all ASUU members.”