There have been indications on Sunday that the Federal Government might adopt any price platform evolved in universities as an alternative to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, who gave this indication in an interview with The PUNCH, however, gave conditions for adopting any fee platform apart from the IPPIS.
According to him, the platform must be able to getting rid of ghost workers’ syndrome and other forms of corruption in price of salaries.
Akpan said this as opposition to the IPPIS grew on Sunday when unions inclusive of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, the Non-Academic Staff Union and the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria stated it became simplest appropriate for the civil service.
Recall that ASUU had on March 23,all started an indefinite strike over the government’s insistence on the IPPIS, amongst different reasons.
Other college unions, which to start with supported the price machine, backed out seeing that it contained many irregularities.
As an alternative to the IPPIS, ASUU had supplied its University Transparency and Accountability Solution to the Federal Government. UTAS is presently being tested with the aid of the National Information Technology Development Agency, at the same time as SSANU and NASU have proposed the University General and Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System.
The President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in an interview with The PUNCH, restated the union’s competition to the IPPIS, saying the machine would localise the university gadget if adopted.
IPPIS won’t allow non-pensionable appointments wished in universities – ASUU
He said, “With the IPPIS, lecturers can not circulate freely across campuses; across nations. It is a system so that it will not will let you appoint humans from outdoor the u . S . A ., folks who are not on pensionable appointments due to the fact the IPPIS focuses handiest on people with pensionable appointments. Contract workforce who're wished in scarce areas are shut out. Our colleagues within the Diaspora who ought to come and supply global flavour and enrich our programmes are close out. If you have a gadget as a way to no longer allow you to fit into global practices, that device can't suit right into a university.”
He defined further that the IPPIS might erode the autonomy of the college machine which became mounted by an Act in 2003.
Ogunyemi added, “The IPPIS changed into designed for the civil carrier, which has a uniform approach to a payroll. In the civil service, they must take permission from the pinnacle of civil service earlier than they can employ. That isn't always viable within the university training due to the fact a university operates a flexible payroll gadget by means of the virtue that academics can come for short employment and sabbaticals.”
IPPIS has many irregularities, it offers income of a purifier to a registrar – SSANU
In the equal vein, the newly elected vice chairman of SSANU, Mr Abdulsobur Salam, defined that the union initially idea the IPPIS would remedy a few problems inside the college gadget, however it later discovered out that it brought greater problems.
He stated, “At the outset, we did now not oppose the IPPIS because we've got had troubles of corruption within the university machine which we thought the IPPIS might resolve. Government made a request that we ought to key into the IPPIS and that they validated to us that the IPPIS had captured the whole lot on salaries.
“But we've witnessed a variety of irregularities; salaries aren't paid, the salary of a purifier given to a registrar and outright non-charge of staff salaries when body of workers were running for 10 months. It is against this background we're now having a second notion. The IPPIS has created a lot of troubles than it has resolved.
Efforts to speak to the National General Secretary, Mr Peter Adeyemi, NASU, proved abortive as he did now not to choose calls to his cell phone nor spoke back an SMS despatched to him.
However, the Chairman of the University of Lagos’ NASU, Mr Kehinde Ajibade defined that the union discovered out plenty of irregularities within the IPPIS.
These, he stated, blanketed arbitrary deductions, high taxation, excessive pension fee and delay in payments.
Ajibade stated, “What the Federal Government promised us as college people is opposite to what we're experiencing now. It’s like the Federal Government deceived us to enroll in the IPPIS. Our salaries were being paid on a platform earlier than we migrated to the IPPIS. Unfortunately, when we got to the IPPIS, we observed it became a rip-off. It changed into complete of inconsistencies and irregularities that we're still fighting with now.
“That is the reason we are opposing the IPPIS . Some of those irregularities are excessive taxation, non-remittance of some of the deductions and cooperative troubles. We have submitted our listing for price. It is both it's miles not on time or we ought to ship an emissary to their workplace earlier than they launch our cash. All these make it tough for us. We launched into a -week warning strike and the Federal Government invited our leaders. Our countrywide bodies proposed another platform as ASUU did. The government familiar our new platform and said they might look at it. That’s where we are now.
Our allowances received’t be paid if IPPIS is followed – PENGASSAN
On his part, the General Secretary of PENGASSAN, Lumumba Okugbawa, in an interview with one in every of our correspondents, said, “We are opposed to the IPPIS for the equal reason that ASUU is opposed to it.
“Everything that you think is right should be examined. Now if you check it and there are issues with it, of route, you received’t receive it. So there are problems with the IPPIS. It isn't always a super report.”
“For oil workers, we also are not simply the regular civil servants and so all the troubles approximately the system ought to be cleared earlier than we are able to be given it.
“Another component is that if you apply the IPPIS, for instance, a number of your allowances as oil people will no longer be paid.”
We are encouraging research, we will undertake any platform better than IPPIS – FG
On Sunday, the spokesman for the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Akpan, said the Federal Government could accept the first-rate fee platform in universities
He defined that the government wanted to store cash and would adopt any platform that would assist in attaining its intention.
He said, “The goal of the IPPIS is to reveal government finances and salaries of employees and additionally to get rid of ghost people’ syndrome. The government is looking to save money and eliminate corruption from the machine.
“So, if an organization comes up and says it have some thing that would assist you to gain this cause, I’m certain authorities would certainly bear in mind it. So, all alternatives are nonetheless open to the government.”
Akpan cited that the authorities would settle for any payment platform that is better than the IPPIS, adding that it become encouraging studies and development within the tertiary establishments within the usa.
Asked if the authorities had taken a function on the UTAS advanced by ASUU, Akpan said, “What government has completed to this point is to assess that of ASUU which goes thru integrity test.
“But for the ones of NASU and SSANU, they stated they just informed the authorities about it without offering anything. They are operating on their very own. What the minister said is that if everyone had what the government may want to use, the government would always undertake it.
“The authorities is searching out the very fine; if there may be some thing that is better than IPPIS, the government would absolutely fall lower back on it. Government is encouraging research and improvement inside the academia.”
In a related improvement, a assertion on Sunday by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige’s Media Office, titled, ‘SSANU extols labour minister.’ quoted
SSANU as announcing it'd rethink its role if the IPPIS became updated to deal with the peculiarities captured by way of the UGPPPS.
The on the spot past President of SSANU, Samson Ugwoke, said this on Saturday even as presenting his successor, Mohammed Ibrahim, to Ngige.
In response to Ugwoke, the minister said the Federal Government could inspect the payment device as demanded through SSANU.
He, but, talked about that any of such structures need to have “ a handshake with the IPPIS and other price structures in use with the aid of the Federal Government.”
According to the announcement, Ugwoke counseled Ngige for “his information of numerous demanding situations dealing with Nigerian workers running below distinctive unions, the persistence and transparency with that you mediate, reawaken hope in us that authorities is devoted to the welfare of employees.”
Meanwhile, the Permanent Secretary inside the Ministry of Education, Sonny Echono, said most effective one difficulty remained to be resolved among the authorities and ASUU.
Echono who stated this in Abuja on Saturday at some point of the professional exam for teachers, stated, “The authorities is running very intently. We are very worried and the President could be very concerned about this protracted (ASUU) strike which, to so a lot of us, is unnecessary. We accept as true with there are different ways of getting matters finished.
“There’s a shared recognition of so most of the issues and we're at a point that very quickly and shortly, it (the strike) may be resolved. There’s handiest one problem in contention.”
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