IPPIS: ASUU Insists On Its Own Payroll Model

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that it would rather design its own payroll model than enrol itself on the federal government’s Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

ASUU disclosed this on Wednesday via a tweet at @ASUUNGR.

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The Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, had announced that university teachers should begin to enrol themselves on IPPIS between November 25 and December 7, 2019.

But the academic body said it had agreed with the Senate to build its payroll model.

“THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has met with Senate President Ahmad Lawan on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) enrolment.

“Its National President Prof Biodun Ogunyemi said ASUU and the Senate agreed that the union should complete its payroll model if it would not use the one designed by the Federal Government,” the tweet read.

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ASUU chairman stressed the need for government to respect the autonomy of universities as contained in the Universities Autonomy Act No. 1, 2007, adding that IPPIS will return universities to the military era where undue interference was the norm.

 “We agreed that we should continue what we have done; the alternative is what we are working on. We showed them the alternative and, hopefully, they would see reasons and it would be accepted.

“IPPIS would return universities to the military era, which is characterised by the use of force,” he said.

According to ASUU, the University Miscellaneous Provisional Amendment Act of 2003(also called the Universities Autonomy Act No. 1, 2007) was enacted to liberate the universities from the bureaucracy of the civil service.

But Federal Government, in June, maintained that the unified payment platform was the best way to go for the country and its institutions.

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“The IPPIS scheme is one of the Federal Government’s reform initiatives which is designed to achieve among others: a centralized payroll system of the Federal Government, to facilitate easy storage, updating and retrieval of personal record for administrative and Pensions processing to aid manpower planning and budgeting as well as to comply with the global best practice,”

Also lending his voice, the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission (NUC), Abubakar Rasheed, said the IPPIS scheme can help in managing public finance.

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