Withheld salaries used to blackmail our members to enroll in IPPIS, says Osodeke

Academic activities in the nation’s universities may again be paralysed as members of the Academic Staff Union Of Nigeria Universities (ASUU) warned of a fresh strike over alleged refusal of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) to pay salaries and remit check-off dues of about 1000 staff for 13 months.
Chairman, University of Jos branch of ASUU, Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, accused the AGF of allegedly causing friction between the union and Federal Government, which may trigger another round of strike.

ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said despite its promise to the union to pay all outstanding salaries before December 31, 2020, government is still owing members in many of the branches between two to 16 months salaries.



Osodeke alleged that government is withholding members’ salaries to force them to enroll for Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

He said: “There are lecturers that are paid for few months, after one or two months, they stopped paying them, and all sorts of funny things. We have met with the minister of labour and employment; we even cascaded it to the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President, but the office of the AGF seems to be adamant on punishing members.

On the next line of action, the ASUU chief said there are procedure for embarking on strike and the union will follow that procedure.”

Asked if the union had made any attempt to meet with officials from the office of the AGF, Osodeke said: “We have our principle of engagement with government. The agreement we reached in December was brokered by the Minister of Labour and Employment, and we also agreed to meet from time to time to look at the issues. We met in May and raised all these issues with the Accountant-General’s Office present at the meeting.

“They tried to deny the fact that some of our members are being owed. And we were able to prove with available data that they were lying and they accepted and agreed to implement. If any of our members enroll in IPPIS today, officials from the office of the AGF will pay you the next day, which means that what they are doing is deliberate.

“We have sent data of our members to them more than four to five times – complete data. They will request for one today we will send, and the next month our members will still not be paid. But if any of our members decides to register, they will pay all their arrears. It is a deliberate attempt.

“They even came last month to request for data and we sent to them. As we speak, more than 1000 of our members are still being owed 16 months. Bursars of each university have sent their documentation and all corrections to the office of the Accountant-General, yet they are not paying our members,” Osodeke added.

He alleged that the officials are trying to blackmail ASUU members, using hunger as a weapon to get them to enroll on IPPIS. “It is very unfortunate that they are trying to kill the university system because of personal reasons, and I think it is wrong. We will meet, get reports from all our branches, get all available data and the union will take the next action.”

The nation’s universities were shut for nine months following a prolonged strike by ASUU over unresolved issues with the Federal Government, particularly on IPPIS and payment of Earned Academic Allowances and revitalisation of tertiary institutions.



According to Maigoro, the AGF is insisting that lecturers must go to Abuja and register for IPPIS despite the intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari.

On alleged non-remittance of check-off dues by the AGF, the ASUU boss said it is a deliberate attempt at preventing the union from assisting members whose salaries were withheld, in a bid to force them to register for IPPIS.

“This we believe is also aimed at deliberately frustrating the implementation of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), the payment platform developed by ASUU.

He said the union has got to a stage where it may be forced to take drastic measures to save the lives and families of its members.

“We call on all well- meaning Nigerians to advise those responsible that this path will force us to take very drastic measures. Invariably, it is the children of all Nigerians in these institutions that would suffer and not just ASUU members.

MEANWHILE, the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), has advised the Federal Government to withdraw its circular directing that workers of Staff Schools should not be captured in the 2022 budget.

SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, warned that the union would embark on industrial action if government fails to heed the union’s request

https://m.guardian.ng/features/education/ASUU-ssanu-threaten-fresh-strike-over-unpaid-salaries-directives-on-staff-school-workers

All students should go and learn work jare...these people are using our lives to play ludo


Meanwhile...

Let's go there . No shaking anywhere. Las las the powerful and wise man will be the winner.

Doradorwa:
Let's go there

God bless Sony interactive entertainment ;God bless the United States ;God bless Nigeria ;God bless Kogi state; God bless the good people of Okene

Gamer999:
asin eh

Make them bring their game up.... God is their strength.

Damnnn niggar
Arsenal should just sign ASUU to help them strike this coming season

Hmmmnnn

ASUU.... The annual strike union....

Una wan go another one again... How many months now is this one??

The last one they went on was was bred about the menace of the fraud( Yahoo-Yahoo) of a thing in full force... Going on another,who knows what this one would spring forth from the Youths of NIGERIA?

Why FG like to dey fight fight when dem nor go fit win

ASSU nor dey use strike dey play

Dem nor dey use abunna threaten olosho

Ok, meanwhile Buhari's daughter just graduated from a university in London

Strike again? Wahala no dey finish for this country.

Please allow me graduate . 5years course has stretched to 6. You people want to turn it into 7 again . Wetin happen sef??

Welcome to Nigeria aka The Devil's Playground

Noted

Yet the FG is paying foreign mercenaries?

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The country has collapsed.

Our education is almost dead

I hope that they will resolve the problem amicably before the strike action

Going to Nigerian universities is mainly for the money campus life give,if u have sense,u go dey make money for school steady..
Anybody relying on a degree is OYO

Yabatech students that resumed school since 2019 will be writing second semester exams this month. These students only attended class about 3 weeks this year.

Best thing any president will do is to allow schools fix price of school fees themselves and allow the to run. Only give them grants one in a while.

Kanu what's all these

I seee ham yesterday and I know say it will come to dis

Anyways the half mental man it Aso Rock may not feel concerned about this. It's only Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and Biafra that it's his problem

ASUU vs FG Again

Kanu again,this man wants to sabotage Buhari govt good governance and cripple the education,economy and health sector just like he did the SECURITY of Northern Nigeria....

I think BULLHARI should treat ASUU president nnamdi kanu in the LANGUAGE HE UNDERSTANDS before he cripple the education section and deprive quota system almajiris from getting educated

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echesilver:
Kanu what's all these

Ode

This is bad. Please they should resolve am asap

Damnn Fella!
That's why I Trynna live right.

Dreaming big , Making money , More money, no weed , no drugs, no fraud , Graduate. Lol

When I get into power someday.. I won't spare those idiots in power.

I have never heard other countries universities staff organisation going on strike

Too bad