The Federal Government has blamed the ongoing civil unrest
by youths across the country on the industrial action embarked upon by the
Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) in the country.
Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said
this in a reconciliation meeting between the Federal Government and ASUU on
Thursday in Abuja.
According to Ngige, “for the past one week, we have all been
on our toes, we’ve been meeting, and we pray that this meeting will yield good
fruits.
“We don’t take pleasure in the fact that the children who
are supposed to be in school are being recruited into the EndSARS, #EndStrike,
#EndSWAT campaign.
“As much as possible, we’ll try to see how we can meet
ourselves halfway so that we can resolve this crisis to the benefits of all and
the country at large.”
The minister said that the Federal Government has commenced
the process of testing the University Transparency Accountability Solution
(UTAS) platform, created by ASUU.
He said that ASUU members have claimed that the platform
will accommodate the peculiarities of the university systems and that the
platform will involve three stages of the test to be concluded within the time
frame the union gave the government.
“We have the preliminary report, and the test run on the
UTAS, and we believe that with that, we will be able to get it right.
“Let me make it clear to members of the press. We never said
UTAS would replace the Integrated Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as some
of you are reporting.
“No! The UTAS developed by them is for the University
systems, and they feel that it captures the peculiarities that are configured
to accommodate all the University systems, especially as it affects the
Professors and other teaching staff and even the Non-Academic Staff.
“We, as a government, feel we are going to put it up for
tests – three stages of the test. We’ve done the first stage of the test, which
is within the timeline of six months that ASUU promised.
“We are going to do another integrity test, Alpha test, Beta
test and the one they call roll-over and other whatever test. It’s the
technologists that know all those tests. But this is the round we are going on
now,” he said.
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