*Govt says fifty seven,000 out of 71,seven-hundred academics in Nigeria already on IPPIS
*FG most effective paying those academics intimidated to sign up for government’s platform – Union.
The Federal Government on Sunday criticised the Academic Staff Union Universities, saying problems concerning seven-month strike by means of the union had been perplexing.
The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, who stated this in an interview with one in every of correspondents in Abuja, accused the union of muddling things up over the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
But in its reaction, the union stated government desired to turn Nigerians in opposition to college lecturers.
Recall that ASUU had on March 23 started an indefinite strike over the Federal Government’s insistence on imposing the IPPIS, which the authorities said all its employees have to undertake for his or her salaries to be paid.
Besides opposing the IPPIS, union also accused the Federal Government of not abiding by using agreements both facets signed a few years in the past.
Two weeks ago, there were symptoms that the strike would soon stop because the Federal Government stated that it would do not forget adopting the University Transparency Account System , which ASUU advanced as an alternative to the IPPIS.
But the desire that scholars of public universities would soon resume dimmed on Sunday as the authorities and ASUU tackled every different on the charge system.
Berating ASUU, the Minister of State for Education, Nwajiuba, stated, “We have a state of affairs that is quite perplexing due to the fact a whole lot of the issues are muddled up so that you don’t realize which one they (ASUU) need to deal with and which one they don’t want to address.”
He said government could now not combine ASUU’s charge device with the IPPIS until it's miles tested.
The minister stated, “If we're going to start adopting platforms from exclusive agencies, it'll defeat the entire purpose for which we need to have a unified way of knowing how a great deal we owe or due to pay at any time in order that we can finances for it and plan for it. They (ASUU) stated no, they'd a device that they would really like to broaden, authorities stated, ‘go ahead increase any machine, it isn't always a problem.’
According to him, authorities informed the union that ASUU’s charge machine must tally with the IPPIS.
He stated that the authorities directed the lecturers to sign in on the IPPIS, at the same time as growing their device so that they could collect their salaries.
ASUU brought a semi-finished payment device – FG
He said, “When originally we asked them how lengthy it'd take (to expand the system), they stated 18 months and after some time, they introduced us a semi -finished product and stated the six months they have been on strike they had used it to develop the system and that we should now combine it with our gadget. Government said no, we aren't going to fuse this with all of our plans but, until we independently paintings on it and see how it works that is in which we're.
“So I nonetheless don’t recognize what the difficulty is. We had been paying them and all of the salaries we've got paid them, have been paid on the IPPIS. So I don’t understand what they suggest via they don’t need the IPPIS. They are already at the IPPIS.
“Out of 71,700 academics in Nigeria, we've fifty seven,000 already at the IPPIS. So I don’t understand the basis for the strike. If it is the IPPIS, I don’t understand why every person will claim they're now not at the IPPIS whilst they are on IPPIS. I don’t recognize why human beings will gather salaries and will no longer work. Even in case you don’t just like the system, do the work for which you are receiving the pay. I don’t recognize it.
“The number one cause for which teachers had been employed is to lecture our students and this is why we are paying them. Now for 6 months or going to a 12 months you're at domestic, you don’t want to train, but if authorities wants to approve promotions you may appear. If authorities wants to rent a new vice chancellor, you'll appear.”
The minister said authorities became no longer out to punish any ASUU member. He said, “The job of the government is not to search for who to punish or sack. We are in need of manpower in Nigeria. The purpose we need ASUU returned is that there is a motive for which we built these universities.
“In each other location inside the global, you can’t shut down the college machine and just stroll away. It is best in Nigeria they do it.”
“The cash government is the usage of to pay those teachers is the money we get from different human beings. The cash is Nigerians’ money and we hand it over to lecturers for a job, but they don’t need to do it.”
When requested if there has been no going lower back at the IPPIS, he said, “The IPPIS predates this government. The IPPIS changed into conceived in Nigeria in 2013. When we came, almost everything that become impossible to put in force in Nigeria because of institutional bottlenecks, we started enforcing it.”
Minister developing confusion – ASUU
But the National president ASUU, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, said that Nwajiuba become contemplating growing confusion.
Ogunyemi, whilst reacting to Nwajiuba’s announcement, stated, “The IPPIS came as a distraction; there are five troubles we raised. Have they addressed the troubles; charter of visitation panel, earned teachers allowances of our members and proliferation of universities particularly nation universities? It is hypocritical for the minister to mention he doesn’t realize what ASUU wishes. They are deliberately developing confusion in order that Nigerians will put the blame on lecturers and they will absolve themselves of any blame.”
He defined in addition that all the figures quoted by means of the minister were wrong even as he challenged the minister to supply the list of the fifty seven,000 contributors of the union at the IPPIS.
IPPIS has not captured one region of academics – ASUU
“The discern cannot be accurate we know that as a long way as academics are involved we can’t have that quantity. We met with the Accountant General of the Federation, office of the Minister of Labour and Employment, and we were given exceptional figures. From our research we realize they have now not captured up to at least one region of our membership. If they believe they've captured our members within the IPPIS platform, they may be joking. The discern that the minister is brandishing couldn't be accurate because we don’t have that wide variety in federal universities. He can display us the list of those fifty seven, 000.”
Ogunyemi noted that the issue of the IPPIS dated again to 2013 when Nwajiuba turned into no longer but in government and as such did not recognise the records of the war.
“Yes they didn’t say they'll abandon the IPPIS but the discussion on the IPPIS dated returned to 2013 whilst he become now not in authorities so he can't know the history of the IPPIS extra than ASUU. We engaged government in 2013 and showed them why the IPPIS cannot paintings in college system. By 2014 we have been discussing with authorities on the opportunity of jointly growing a platform that might serve the college better. The IPPIS turned into evolved for civil servants. We couldn’t have told government to desert the IPPIS, however the IPPIS become no longer at first supposed for the university and we challenge them that there's no college within the global wherein the IPPIS is being applied in which the salaries of the university team of workers are paid without delay through the civil provider. The essence of getting governing council may be defeated. Many of individuals who enrolled within the IPPIS are rejecting it already. If non-instructional team of workers have regular the IPPIS they cannot equate that with ASUU. This is the time they must show the goodwill they promised us. I don’t agree with he's speakme for authorities on that. He was now not gift at the 3 displays we've had so he can not respect the usefulness of UTAS. UTAS is in advance of the IPPIS.
“That difficulty of collecting money without operating I am now not sure he's within the true picture of what is happing in our campuses
“We have our colleagues who have now not been paid one kobo since February this 12 months because the IPPIS claims to have one difficulty or the alternative with them. When the President stated they have to pay us, by the time they might pay some colleagues have they've six months arrears, 4 months and nine months of unpaid salaries.
“They were paying folks who they intimidated to enroll in the IPPIS and people they recognize have like a 12 months, years to retirement, they now informed them that in the event that they don’t be part of the IPPIS, the charge of their gratuity will not be assured. They are those simply coming to the gadget without present process the due system and the IPPIS operators are bringing human beings in via the backdoor. Another group are those who've troubles with the union and government is leveraging on that to drag them to their side.”
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