ASUU differs as FG drops IPPIS payment for tertiary institutions
Regarding the union’s purported exclusion from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Asuu, has taken issue with the federal government.
The deactivation of the IPPIS for federal tertiary institutions was confirmed by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, according to a report published online on Monday.
In an interview, Bawa Mokwa, the OAGF’s Director of Press and Public Relations, said, “Given the Federal Government’s directive to remove these institutions from the system, it was only natural for the IPPIS platform for FTIs to be shut down.”
Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, the National President, stated in an interview that it was only a misinterpretation of the criteria, which still required universities to submit their wages to IPPIS for screening and verification.
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“As a union, we cannot tolerate it,” he stated. It was mentioned in the statement’s body that the government would continue to send names to IPPIS for verification before salary payments.
“Are you aware of how many institutions there are in our nation? This is unacceptable to us since it is only a ploy to complicate and manipulate things.
This implies that more than 300 institutions nationwide will submit their pay information to IPPIS for verification. After budgets have been agreed upon and signed by the president and passed by the House of Representatives, all universities should prepare wages and pay employees.
“Why should IPPIS continue to verify our salaries if they intend to remove us from it?”
Over time, ASUU argued that the government template would enslave intellectuals since it lacked provisions for, among other things, responsibility allowance, study leave allowance, and payment of promotion arrears.
The union said that the IPPIS template was designed to phase out university lecturers above 60 years against the new policy where professors retired at 70 years, saying forceful imposition of the IPPIS on university workers violated the University Autonomy Act.
The union created the University Transparency and Accountability Solution as a substitute after the IPPIS scandals, but the federal government rejected it.
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When our correspondent called other university unions, such as the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, they were not aware of the event.
However, Osodeke disclosed that the Federal Government’s renegotiation team would be hosting ASUU’s significant meeting.
“There’s nothing new to report at the moment,” he disclosed in an interview with The Punch. We will let you know whether or not we plan to go on strike at our upcoming meeting with the government.
“We are unable to ascertain whether the outcome will be favorable until after that meeting.”
“Since this will be our first significant meeting, we are hoping for a positive reception. Establishing criteria for the renegotiation of our 2009 agreement was the purpose of the prior meeting.”.
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CONUA seeks payment of withheld salaries
On Monday, the Congress of University Academia called for the prompt release of more than three months’ worth of salaries that the federal government has delayed from its members.
The group criticized the non-release of earned academic allowance for more than ten academic sessions and stated that the government’s failure to pay the unpaid salaries could cause a catastrophe at the nation’s institutions.
In a news release acquired in Osogbo, Osun State, on Monday and signed by its National President, Dr. Niyi Sunmonu, CONUA stated that the three and a half months that the ASUU professors went on strike were the time frame covered by the delayed salary.
According to Sunmonu, CONUA members did not demand or initiate industrial action during that time. Withholding their paychecks would be in violation of the National Industrial Court’s July 25, 2023 ruling, which upheld CONUA’s status as an autonomous union.
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The union would like to draw President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s (GCFR) attention once more to the ongoing withholding of three and a half months’ wages because of a sister academic staff union’s strike action in the universities.
As a union, CONUA has continuously insisted that it was not involved in the strike action and never declared it.
“Those who went on strike were grouped along with those who did not by the administration. This is unfair and amounts to punishing both the wicked and the innocent.”
“The action taken by the Federal Government contradicts the ruling rendered by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) on July 25, 2023, which upheld CONUA’s status as an independent union.”
“Where any employer locks out his workers, the workers shall be entitled to wages and any other applicable remunerations for the period of the lock-out, and the period of the lock-out shall not prejudicially affect any rights of the workers being rights dependent on the continuity of the period of employment,” the President should observe, adding that withholding the three and a half months’ salaries of CONUA members who did not declare or take part in any strike action also violates Section 43 (1b) of the Trade Disputes Act CAP. T8. This clause aligns with international best practices.”
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