The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) is gearing up for another confrontation with the federal
government over planned imposition of integrated personnel payroll system
(IPPIS) on its members.
The showdown comes on the back of
President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that workers not on the IPPIS would no
longer receive salary.
The union leaders called for an
emergency national executive council meeting where it reached a conclusion that
the leadership at university levels should begin mobilisation of members for an
action against the federal government.
Deji Omole, the chairman, ASUU
University of Ibadan chapter, on Sunday, said the union is not against
accountability but will not allow the government to violate existing laws and
autonomy of the university.
Omole also frowned that despite
ASUU’s offer to help the government design the appropriate template that will
factor in the peculiarities of university lecturers in the IPPIS, the
Buhari-led administration appeared to have settled for the World Bank-designed
exploitative template.
He said the government’s template
was designed to suppress lecturers as it does not make provisions for payment
of arrears of promotion, study leave allowance, responsibility allowance among
others.
According to the union leader,
the government template was designed to phase out university lecturers above 60
years against the new policy where professors retired at 70 years.
“Forceful imposition of IPPIS on
university workers is a violation of the university autonomy act. It is
therefore illegal,” Omole said.
“While ASUU is not against
accountability on the part of the university administrators government should
not be allowed to destroy public universities in its purported claims of
fighting corruption.
Our members should remained focus
and committed in our struggles to protect public university education by
resisting forceful imposition of IPPIS on university workers.”
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