| ASUU's Reasons For Kicking Against IPPIS In The University after NEC Meeting by ibbo: 2:15pm On Oct 20, 2019 |
IPPIS and the Stand of ASUU: update from the emergency NEC for NEC meeting that took place on the 17th (at abuja by 9pm) and end on 18th (by 5am).
BACKGROUND ISSUES.
1. Outcome of the joint meeting between the office of the AGF, Director of IPPIS, committee of Vice Chancellors and the unions (ASUU,SSANU,NAAT and NASU) which was headed by the chairman of Committee of Pro- Chancellors, Professor Munzali Jibrin.
2. Observations, Findings and Stand of the Union.
The meeting was deadlocked because of so many fundamental issues that ASUU observed after the Director of IPPIS made his presentation on how the template will capture the peculiarities of the academics. It is noteworthy that at the meeting, it was only ASUU that stood its ground to make its position and observation known to the committee, other unions who in the first instance were with the union made a U- turn suddenly and sided with the government. The vice chancellors present also could not speak ( with the exception of the Unijos DVC who stands for the VC and luckily he is an expert in ICT) because their chairman was not available as at that time.
What the union observed after the presentation were;
1. The template was designed to phase out staff who are above 60 years of Age. This fundamentally violates the new policy where professors retire at 70.
2. The component of RENT in our consolidated salary is to be removed on those who resides in the university quarters.
3. The template did not make provisions for payment of arrears of promotion, Study leave allowance, responsibility (for a new appointee) and immediate upgrade of salary of visiting lecturers in their visiting places.
4. The template was a mere spread sheet presented (based on the observation raised by the UNIJOS DVC ) which could not capture the technical and peculiarities associated with the flexibility and mobility of academics. Several questions were asked which the director of IPPIS could not provide answers to. This further created suspicion of the whole issue.
5. The template adopts a tax payment system ( Ptax 2) which charges between 48 and 78 thousand naira ( fixed according to rank) this deny us the flexibilities associated with reduced tax burden from one state to another.
The Director of IPPIS later reminded our union that they are acting on the Directive given by the president which mandates them to enroll all FG staff before the end of October 2019. Failure to do so will deny them their salaries. The statement further created confusion because the Union observed
a. We are not employees of the Federal Government rather, we were employed by our respective councils and as such, the statement has nothing to do with university staff.
b. That the statement from Mr president contradicts the laws and acts establishing and regulating universities in nigeria. The union positioned that this infringes the institutional and financial autonomy of public universities, making Governing councils to be irrelevant and less active.
3. That the FG is trying to reverse us back into the mainstream civil service which our past leaders have fought vehemently to pull us out.
OUR PROPOSAL
1. Let the governing councils of Universities take charge of the financial affairs of the universities. Where they are found wanting, the FG can dissolve, investigate and even prosecute them.
2. Give us the chance to develop and present suitable alternative that will take care of our peculiarities while the councils will ensure it's adoption and workability.
FURTHER FINDINGS
1. The IPPIS is run by a financial consulting company. Characterized by inefficient, less experienced and very young personnel who extort ( Evidence mentioned at the NEC) vulnerable enrollees who go to abuja to sort their problems out with the agency. As much as 100 to 200 thousand were charged before service is rendered.
2. That by proper procedures, it takes a minimum of 60 days for an enrollee to be paid after all the biometrics are done. This contradicts even the short notice given by the president to the civil servants.
3. The IPPIS which is an initiative of Mrs Okonjo Iwela has its roots in the world bank political tools used to further subjugate less Developed countries. This further generate crises into the various sectors of our nation.
4. The IPPIS by its structure has 7 modules in which only one is implementable. This is characterized by gross incompetence exhibited by the staff of the IPPIS during the meeting. They seems not to be abreast with the technicalities and cumbersome nature of the template.
The chairman of the meeting professor munzali jibrin having listened to the ASUU's presentation summoned courage and told the participants that the meeting could not be concluded becouse the union has raised a very fundamental and legal issue which requires a deeper analysis and investigation. He then called off the meeting with a promise to get back to the union.
It is obvious that the AGF and the IPPIS office were not happy with the outcome and as such, devised a more sinister plan to enroll us through the back door. What they did was;
a. To demand for the personnel payroll from all the federal universities where almost all the universities complied. Some even used the opportunity to update their payroll by taking additional staff and converting some casual staff to main staff so that they will get enough manpower. This is because the template does not provide for additional staffing.
b. Send the IPPIS forms to selected universities and encouraged vice chancellors to do every thing possible to ensure compliance.
The union further observed;
1. Some universities collected the form and some members filled and returned. It further observed that majority of those who complied in filling the IPPIS forms in those universities where forms were given are those from college of Medicine.
2. Other universities collected the form and refused to distribute.
3. The rest did not receive the forms at all.
OUR OPTIONS
The union was very worried and saddened at the attitude of some of our members who became jittery and are ready to compromise the future of our universities by a mere threat of stoppage of Salary. This calls for a more reorientation of our members on the principles and ideology of the union. The emergence of a supposed break away faction of the union and the amplification of the sex for grade and all other antics are grand plan to quash the union and give a bad public image about all academicians. The following are the options of the union;
1. Write a strong letter to the president through the minister of Education and demand audience with him.
2. Write a letter to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives and also have audience with them to brief them correctly on the situation.
3. Consider a court action seeking an injunction restraining the FG from violating the law by imposing IPPIS on our members.
4. Strong press releases, media briefings and campaigns against the planned imposition of the system on our members.
5. National and Zonal visitations to all our branches, sensitising and mobilising our members for an action in case our salaries are stopped.
My dear comrades, this is the brief I was able to gather at the NEC meeting. You may wish to digest it and make further input when we call for a Congress meeting pls. Thank you 1 Like 2 Shares |
| Re: ASUU's Reasons For Kicking Against IPPIS In The University after NEC Meeting by sweetonugbu: 5:43pm On Oct 20, 2019 |
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| Re: ASUU's Reasons For Kicking Against IPPIS In The University after NEC Meeting by durangokid: 7:00pm On Oct 20, 2019 |
ibbo:
IPPIS and the Stand of ASUU: update from the emergency NEC for NEC meeting that took place on the 17th (at abuja by 9pm) and end on 18th (by 5am).
BACKGROUND ISSUES.
1. Outcome of the joint meeting between the office of the AGF, Director of IPPIS, committee of Vice Chancellors and the unions (ASUU,SSANU,NAAT and NASU) which was headed by the chairman of Committee of Pro- Chancellors, Professor Munzali Jibrin.
2. Observations, Findings and Stand of the Union.
The meeting was deadlocked because of so many fundamental issues that ASUU observed after the Director of IPPIS made his presentation on how the template will capture the peculiarities of the academics. It is noteworthy that at the meeting, it was only ASUU that stood its ground to make its position and observation known to the committee, other unions who in the first instance were with the union made a U- turn suddenly and sided with the government. The vice chancellors present also could not speak ( with the exception of the Unijos DVC who stands for the VC and luckily he is an expert in ICT) because their chairman was not available as at that time.
What the union observed after the presentation were;
1. The template was designed to phase out staff who are above 60 years of Age. This fundamentally violates the new policy where professors retire at 70.
2. The component of RENT in our consolidated salary is to be removed on those who resides in the university quarters.
3. The template did not make provisions for payment of arrears of promotion, Study leave allowance, responsibility (for a new appointee) and immediate upgrade of salary of visiting lecturers in their visiting places.
4. The template was a mere spread sheet presented (based on the observation raised by the UNIJOS DVC ) which could not capture the technical and peculiarities associated with the flexibility and mobility of academics. Several questions were asked which the director of IPPIS could not provide answers to. This further created suspicion of the whole issue.
5. The template adopts a tax payment system ( Ptax 2) which charges between 48 and 78 thousand naira ( fixed according to rank) this deny us the flexibilities associated with reduced tax burden from one state to another.
The Director of IPPIS later reminded our union that they are acting on the Directive given by the president which mandates them to enroll all FG staff before the end of October 2019. Failure to do so will deny them their salaries. The statement further created confusion because the Union observed
a. We are not employees of the Federal Government rather, we were employed by our respective councils and as such, the statement has nothing to do with university staff.
b. That the statement from Mr president contradicts the laws and acts establishing and regulating universities in nigeria. The union positioned that this infringes the institutional and financial autonomy of public universities, making Governing councils to be irrelevant and less active.
3. That the FG is trying to reverse us back into the mainstream civil service which our past leaders have fought vehemently to pull us out.
OUR PROPOSAL
1. Let the governing councils of Universities take charge of the financial affairs of the universities. Where they are found wanting, the FG can dissolve, investigate and even prosecute them.
2. Give us the chance to develop and present suitable alternative that will take care of our peculiarities while the councils will ensure it's adoption and workability.
FURTHER FINDINGS
1. The IPPIS is run by a financial consulting company. Characterized by inefficient, less experienced and very young personnel who extort ( Evidence mentioned at the NEC) vulnerable enrollees who go to abuja to sort their problems out with the agency. As much as 100 to 200 thousand were charged before service is rendered.
2. That by proper procedures, it takes a minimum of 60 days for an enrollee to be paid after all the biometrics are done. This contradicts even the short notice given by the president to the civil servants.
3. The IPPIS which is an initiative of Mrs Okonjo Iwela has its roots in the world bank political tools used to further subjugate less Developed countries. This further generate crises into the various sectors of our nation.
4. The IPPIS by its structure has 7 modules in which only one is implementable. This is characterized by gross incompetence exhibited by the staff of the IPPIS during the meeting. They seems not to be abreast with the technicalities and cumbersome nature of the template.
The chairman of the meeting professor munzali jibrin having listened to the ASUU's presentation summoned courage and told the participants that the meeting could not be concluded becouse the union has raised a very fundamental and legal issue which requires a deeper analysis and investigation. He then called off the meeting with a promise to get back to the union.
It is obvious that the AGF and the IPPIS office were not happy with the outcome and as such, devised a more sinister plan to enroll us through the back door. What they did was;
a. To demand for the personnel payroll from all the federal universities where almost all the universities complied. Some even used the opportunity to update their payroll by taking additional staff and converting some casual staff to main staff so that they will get enough manpower. This is because the template does not provide for additional staffing.
b. Send the IPPIS forms to selected universities and encouraged vice chancellors to do every thing possible to ensure compliance.
The union further observed;
1. Some universities collected the form and some members filled and returned. It further observed that majority of those who complied in filling the IPPIS forms in those universities where forms were given are those from college of Medicine.
2. Other universities collected the form and refused to distribute.
3. The rest did not receive the forms at all.
OUR OPTIONS
The union was very worried and saddened at the attitude of some of our members who became jittery and are ready to compromise the future of our universities by a mere threat of stoppage of Salary. This calls for a more reorientation of our members on the principles and ideology of the union. The emergence of a supposed break away faction of the union and the amplification of the sex for grade and all other antics are grand plan to quash the union and give a bad public image about all academicians. The following are the options of the union;
1. Write a strong letter to the president through the minister of Education and demand audience with him.
2. Write a letter to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives and also have audience with them to brief them correctly on the situation.
3. Consider a court action seeking an injunction restraining the FG from violating the law by imposing IPPIS on our members.
4. Strong press releases, media briefings and campaigns against the planned imposition of the system on our members.
5. National and Zonal visitations to all our branches, sensitising and mobilising our members for an action in case our salaries are stopped.
My dear comrades, this is the brief I was able to gather at the NEC meeting. You may wish to digest it and make further input when we call for a Congress meeting pls. Thank you . Oga if your union is afraid to enroll in the ippis tgen, there is problem of extra financial secrets they don't want to tell us, ippis is system of payment that authomotically up date salary payment without scam or does not allow arbitrary employment 2 Likes |
| Re: ASUU's Reasons For Kicking Against IPPIS In The University after NEC Meeting by nigeriaschoolne(f): 7:15pm On Oct 22, 2019 |
ibbo:
IPPIS and the Stand of ASUU: update from the emergency NEC for NEC meeting that took place on the 17th (at abuja by 9pm) and end on 18th (by 5am).
BACKGROUND ISSUES.
1. Outcome of the joint meeting between the office of the AGF, Director of IPPIS, committee of Vice Chancellors and the unions (ASUU,SSANU,NAAT and NASU) which was headed by the chairman of Committee of Pro- Chancellors, Professor Munzali Jibrin.
2. Observations, Findings and Stand of the Union.
The meeting was deadlocked because of so many fundamental issues that ASUU observed after the Director of IPPIS made his presentation on how the template will capture the peculiarities of the academics. It is noteworthy that at the meeting, it was only ASUU that stood its ground to make its position and observation known to the committee, other unions who in the first instance were with the union made a U- turn suddenly and sided with the government. The vice chancellors present also could not speak ( with the exception of the Unijos DVC who stands for the VC and luckily he is an expert in ICT) because their chairman was not available as at that time.
What the union observed after the presentation were;
1. The template was designed to phase out staff who are above 60 years of Age. This fundamentally violates the new policy where professors retire at 70.
2. The component of RENT in our consolidated salary is to be removed on those who resides in the university quarters.
3. The template did not make provisions for payment of arrears of promotion, Study leave allowance, responsibility (for a new appointee) and immediate upgrade of salary of visiting lecturers in their visiting places.
4. The template was a mere spread sheet presented (based on the observation raised by the UNIJOS DVC ) which could not capture the technical and peculiarities associated with the flexibility and mobility of academics. Several questions were asked which the director of IPPIS could not provide answers to. This further created suspicion of the whole issue.
5. The template adopts a tax payment system ( Ptax 2) which charges between 48 and 78 thousand naira ( fixed according to rank) this deny us the flexibilities associated with reduced tax burden from one state to another.
The Director of IPPIS later reminded our union that they are acting on the Directive given by the president which mandates them to enroll all FG staff before the end of October 2019. Failure to do so will deny them their salaries. The statement further created confusion because the Union observed
a. We are not employees of the Federal Government rather, we were employed by our respective councils and as such, the statement has nothing to do with university staff.
b. That the statement from Mr president contradicts the laws and acts establishing and regulating universities in nigeria. The union positioned that this infringes the institutional and financial autonomy of public universities, making Governing councils to be irrelevant and less active.
3. That the FG is trying to reverse us back into the mainstream civil service which our past leaders have fought vehemently to pull us out.
OUR PROPOSAL
1. Let the governing councils of Universities take charge of the financial affairs of the universities. Where they are found wanting, the FG can dissolve, investigate and even prosecute them.
2. Give us the chance to develop and present suitable alternative that will take care of our peculiarities while the councils will ensure it's adoption and workability.
FURTHER FINDINGS
1. The IPPIS is run by a financial consulting company. Characterized by inefficient, less experienced and very young personnel who extort ( Evidence mentioned at the NEC) vulnerable enrollees who go to abuja to sort their problems out with the agency. As much as 100 to 200 thousand were charged before service is rendered.
2. That by proper procedures, it takes a minimum of 60 days for an enrollee to be paid after all the biometrics are done. This contradicts even the short notice given by the president to the civil servants.
3. The IPPIS which is an initiative of Mrs Okonjo Iwela has its roots in the world bank political tools used to further subjugate less Developed countries. This further generate crises into the various sectors of our nation.
4. The IPPIS by its structure has 7 modules in which only one is implementable. This is characterized by gross incompetence exhibited by the staff of the IPPIS during the meeting. They seems not to be abreast with the technicalities and cumbersome nature of the template.
The chairman of the meeting professor munzali jibrin having listened to the ASUU's presentation summoned courage and told the participants that the meeting could not be concluded becouse the union has raised a very fundamental and legal issue which requires a deeper analysis and investigation. He then called off the meeting with a promise to get back to the union.
It is obvious that the AGF and the IPPIS office were not happy with the outcome and as such, devised a more sinister plan to enroll us through the back door. What they did was;
a. To demand for the personnel payroll from all the federal universities where almost all the universities complied. Some even used the opportunity to update their payroll by taking additional staff and converting some casual staff to main staff so that they will get enough manpower. This is because the template does not provide for additional staffing.
b. Send the IPPIS forms to selected universities and encouraged vice chancellors to do every thing possible to ensure compliance.
The union further observed;
1. Some universities collected the form and some members filled and returned. It further observed that majority of those who complied in filling the IPPIS forms in those universities where forms were given are those from college of Medicine.
2. Other universities collected the form and refused to distribute.
3. The rest did not receive the forms at all.
OUR OPTIONS
The union was very worried and saddened at the attitude of some of our members who became jittery and are ready to compromise the future of our universities by a mere threat of stoppage of Salary. This calls for a more reorientation of our members on the principles and ideology of the union. The emergence of a supposed break away faction of the union and the amplification of the sex for grade and all other antics are grand plan to quash the union and give a bad public image about all academicians. The following are the options of the union;
1. Write a strong letter to the president through the minister of Education and demand audience with him.
2. Write a letter to the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives and also have audience with them to brief them correctly on the situation.
3. Consider a court action seeking an injunction restraining the FG from violating the law by imposing IPPIS on our members.
4. Strong press releases, media briefings and campaigns against the planned imposition of the system on our members.
5. National and Zonal visitations to all our branches, sensitising and mobilising our members for an action in case our salaries are stopped.
My dear comrades, this is the brief I was able to gather at the NEC meeting. You may wish to digest it and make further input when we call for a Congress meeting pls. Thank you Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Get ready for the future and take the first step with https://www.nigeriaschoolnews.ng/unijos-admission-list/ UNIJOS is here for you. So take charge of your life. www.nigeriaschoolnews.ng |
