Professor Moses Ochonu has criticise the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) rejection of the Federal Government proposed Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) for university lecturers.

Professor Ochonu in a post published on his Facebook page wondered why ASUU is rejecting the payment system since it purpose is to stop a long-running scam in federal salary payments.

He said rather IPPIS is their enemy because it will expose their promiscuous moonlighting.

He further urged the FG to stick to its guns and for once calls the bluff of these selfish thugs, blackmailers, and hostage takers.

His post read, “Let us try to reason with ASUU, no matter how moronic and crassly selfish their reasons are for opposing the IPPIS biometric salary payment system, which has already been implemented across the federal government to streamline and bring transparency to federal workers’ salary payments.”

“The president of the union, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, listed the following reasons for why they would go on strike if IPPIS is implemented for university lecturers:

“First, according to media reports, he described IPPIS as a scam while visiting Senate President, Ahmed Lawan.”

“This is typical ASUU bombast. They like to engage in wholesale condemnation without precision or specificity. How is IPPIS a scam? Why is it a scam? What aspect of its transparency mechanism is a scam? What aspect of its implementation is a scam? Who is it meant to scam when in fact it is designed, at least in theory, to stop a long-running scam in federal salary payments? And if it is a scam, why is ASUU not protesting its implementation in regard to all federal workers and is instead only opposing its implementation in the public university system? Expecting precision, specifics, and introspection from ASUU is like expecting water to come out of a stone. No wonder, most ASUU members are such poor teachers who cannot communicate.”

“Second, Ogunyemi “said forcing ASUU members into the system would destroy the education system in the country.”

“This is another drivel. How will a measure designed to weed out ghost workers and ensure that salaries and allowances are paid only to those who deserve and worked for them “destroy the education system”? What does this vague and extremely broad phrase even mean? How will transparency–or the quest for it–destroy the education system? At any rate, is the education system not already comatose and on the verge of implosion/destruction? Even if IPPIS is all that the dishonest ASUU folks say it is, how can it destroy a system that has already been destroyed by the same ASUU members?”

“Third, he said “forcing the university lecturers to get captured in the payroll system would take away the powers of the governing councils of the various universities.”

“Is the ASUU man saying that the governing councils supersede the federal government that appoints them and pays them? Are those councils not constituted and funded by the FG? Are the universities (especially the federal ones) not funded by the federal government? Has ASUU considered the fact that, as funders of federal universities, the FG can implement any salary mechanism it deems necessary as long as it implements it across all agencies and institutions of the FG? If university autonomy is a fetish that ASUU wants to worship and invoke to protect their impunity, how about demanding that universities become truly autonomous and self-funding entities?”

Don't mind those useless fellow, where were they when their members were busy slaughtering female students for just mark. The only reason of fighting the IPPIS is that it will expose their ass.
Are Polytechnics, college of Educations not Educational institutions, why aren't their members complaining too.

Of the numerous bad policies of FG, I agree with them on this. These lecturers sometimes act like gods. I think it's time we get things right.
I hope after ASUU, we should look into the Senate excesses.