ASUU Vows To Expose Those Profiting From IPPIS Crisis


Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has said it would soon expose those feeding fat on the adoption of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), by the federal government as its payment platform.

This follows allegations by the union that some people in the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation were subverting its efforts to reach an understanding with the federal government on the controversial payment system.Ogunyemi, who was reacting to a memo from the office of the AGF that any federal worker not yet captured on the IPPIS platform would not be paid salary as from November this year, noted that such a memo was not binding on his members.

“All the agreements we have been having since 1992 with the government have always been having the provision that circulars emanating from the civil service which don’t have origin in collective bargaining with the government won’t be binding on us.


“Circulars that will be binding on us are those coming out of our negotiation with the government like what we had in autonomy for university, retirement age and others. They can be respected because they are products of collective bargaining,” he said.



On why the union would not accept IPPIS, the ASUU boss explained that there was a meeting with the government where it was agreed that if ASUU could develop a better alternative to IPPIS, such an alternative would be adopted.

“Based on that, our members started work on the University Transparency and Accountability System (UTAS), and in the presence of the Minister, the Permanent Secretary and the leadership of the National Universities Commission (NUC), we demonstrated its use.

“IPPIS was not part of the reasons we went on strike early March this year. Now, it is clear that some elements who are benefiting from it and who do not want a better platform, brought IPPIS matter up and we are going to expose them soon. Now, our members are being owed between three and eight months salaries.

We know some people deliberately withheld the salaries. Nigerians should ask them why they are doing that,” he stated.

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