The Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) says it would sanction its members who enrolled in the
Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), against its
boycott order.
Some ASUU members had “surreptitiously” begun registering on the payroll
platform, against the union’s directive to shun the scheme as the federal
government announced that 937,000 workers had enrolled.
In a new development, ASUU’s
administrative body across Nigerian universities vowed that the union would
sanction academic staffs in about seven universities found culpable.
According to This Day, Abubakar
Sabo Yabo, chairman of ASUU at the Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, said
only six of its members registered on the platform out of 1200 as the boycott
recorded an overall compliance rate of 90 per cent.
He added that the six erring
members would be made to appear before the ethics and disciplinary committee of
the institution to face possible sanctions.
While the enrollment came to an
end on December 7, there were strong indications that the federal government
would extend it.
Among the institutions where some
ASUU members were said not have complied are the University of Benin (UNIBEN);
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife; Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti
State; and University of Nsukka, Nsukka.
On his part, Christian Opata, the
ASUU chairman at the UNN, said the institution is waiting on the union’s
national leadership for directives on the sanctions to be meted out to 13 of
its lecturers who enrolled in IPPIS.
“We are waiting for the national
leadership to give directives on what to do to our members who decided to
enroll. It is not in the power of the branch chairman to sanction them. But the
fact remains that they shall be sanctioned,” he was quoted to have said.
Jamilu Shehu, the zonal ASUU
chairman, said only two academic staff enrolled at the Federal University,
Dutsinma, Katsina.
He added that ASUU would collate
the names of those who enrolled and know the next line of action.
ASUU had accused the government
of designing the IPPIS to suppress the masses in the guise of anti-corruption
and threatened “no pay no work” — a move which was later suspended over further
meetings with the government.
Rejecting the payroll platform on
account of what it described as some “grey areas,” the union had warned that
the country’s university system would be thrown into chaos if the FG persisted
on its enrollment and fails to pay its members as threatened.
But Ahmed Idris, the
accountant-general of the federation (AGF), described the union’s opposition as
an “open endorsement of corruption.”
He stated that the government
remains unwavering on the deadline for all MDAs to enroll on the platform.
The federal ministry of education
had similarly claimed that “ASSU is jittery” over its IPPIS enrollment as the
new system would help expose the financial atrocities and irregularities
committed by their members on FG’s payroll.
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