Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, the President of the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday introduced an alternative to the
Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, to the Senate
leadership.
Prof. Ogunyemi addressed reporters after a three-hour
closed-door session between ASUU and the leadership of the Senate.
According to him, the visit was a follow up to the earlier
one held in October 2019 between the body of lecturers and the leadership of
the Senate.
He said the meetings have been to find a way out of the
IPPIS crisis.
Back in October 2019, ASUU had told the Senate leadership
that it would design an alternative to the IPPIS, which would accommodate the
peculiarity of the university system.
Ogunyemi said the University Transparency and Accountability
Solution, UTAS, was a home-grown system that would end the eight-month
industrial action by ASUU if embraced by the Federal Government.
He said, “We had a positive meeting which was cordial and we
are going to continue from there. We will still meet again to continue from
where we stopped.
“We have developed what we call University Transparency and
Accountability Solution. We have presented it to the Senate today and the
Senate President commended it.
“We are going to present the platform to other stakeholders.
UTAS is home grown while IPPIS is foreign.
“We have shown that we are inventors, we are creators of
software and we are also capable of doing what our colleagues are doing in
other parts of the world.”
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