The Federal
Government has insisted on migration of payment of salaries of lecturers
teaching at federal universities to the Integrated Payroll Personal System,
IPPIS, despite the threat by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to
embark on strike over the issue.
Speaking to reporters at the
end of the meeting of National Economic Council on Tuesday, the Minister of Finance,
Hajia Zainab Ahmed, said the decision to migrate payment of salaries of
lecturers to IPPIS platform was a presidential directive binding on
all Federal Government’s staff.
According to her,
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that every staff of government’s
agencies must be on IPPIS.
She said that her job was to
comply with the president’s directive.
“So, that is what I do and we
are going to do that. It is a pity if ASUU carries out this strike because what
ASUU is saying now is that they should be treated differently from other staff
of the government of Nigeria who are also on IPPIS.
“We will be engaging ASUU; we
will be discussing with them; but at the end of the day, as far as I am
concerned, my instruction is from the president.’’
ASUU had insisted that
migrating payment of salaries of lecturers to the IPPIS, a central platform for
management of salaries of workers of the federal will be a negation of the
constititionally guaranteed autonomy of the universities.
The Union had therefore vowed
to call its members out on strike if the Federal Government continues with the
implementation of the directive issued by the President during the presentation
of the 2020 budget proposal to the National Assembly.
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