The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, said some lecturers got excess salaries and had to refund it back to the government.

He disclosed this on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today amid the controversy trailing the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), a policy that has been faulted by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

“I think it is a lie to say the government has not paid them in eight months. It will be unfair to the government and wouldn’t be necessary to bring that kind of argument because some people may have different levels,” he said.

“Some people even got salaries that were not adequate. Some people over got and had to refund. There were so many issues with it.”

When asked when the university lecturers would call off their strike and return back to their classrooms, the minister never gave a specific date.

He rather said there is no circumstance preventing the lecturers from returning back to their duty posts.

“The lecturers can be back in the classroom tomorrow if they say they want to go back. There is nothing withholding the lecturers from into the classroom tomorrow.

“Everything that the government needs to do is done. If you want your salaries, get on the platform and collect your salaries,” he added.

ASUU had on March 23 declared an indefinite strike over some unresolved issues with the Federal Government, notably the non-compliance of the 2009 agreement.

ASUU President, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi who made the announcement said that the action became necessary following the Federal Government’s refusal to address issues raised in its 2019 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as well as its objection to joining the Integrated Pay Roll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

Also, during his interview with Channels Television on October 29, Ogunyemi insisted that there is no going back on the union’s position on the IPPIS, stressing that it was wrong to use the payment platform for university lecturers.

He blamed this for the alleged irregularities in the payment of salaries and allowances of lecturers, stressing that some academics received very poor remuneration in some cases

Source: Channels

Two bastards, ASUU oh and FG

Incompetence !

This people are not competent to run the affairs of this great country .
Just imagine !
Some lecturers got excess and they must refund .
What about those that got less ?
Come on !
Are this people not ashamed of themselves

REALretep:
Just imagine
This government has no plans for the youth oo

.
Na today u know

Exactly what ASUU has been saying about IPPIS, very fraudulent tool use by government to defraud the country. God help us

In summary, IPPIS has a lot of irregularities.

ASUU was right afterall.

Anybody that plays draft should not be given any political responsibility anymore....

inteli:
Exactly what ASUU has been saying about IPPIS, very fraudulent tool use by government to defraud the country. God help us

Exactly

Karlifate:
In summary, IPPIS has a lot of irregularities.

ASUU was right afterall.

Lolz this is why dey can never join, ASUU are very wise

Just imagineThis government has no plans for the youth oo

Ask him where his children school and he will start giving stories

This man is just sick

No shame at all

I can't see good out of today's meeting I pray I am wrong
Why is it that this Nwajiuba is worse than Adamu, in his utterances

Well... Why force them into a payment platform that has so many irregularities... Imagine saying some of them were over payed.... A platform that took them millions to develop... Well... I'm not surprised... This is Nigeria... God bless Nigeria.

Will this fools STFU

TossTos:
Incompetence !

This people are not competent to run the affairs of this great country .
Just imagine !
Some lecturers got excess and they must refund .
What about those that got less ?
Come on !
Are this people not ashamed of themselves

These guys are not Nigerians, they are set to ruin this economy

So much for a payment software! Very dramatic and unreliable payment platform!

Over-pay some subscribers and underpay others! Yet they claim its the most suitable payment platform, and battling to shove it down the throats of intellectuals who can clearly see the myriad inefficiencies of the software!

This is grossly annoying to say the least!

Same old story everyday, it's all now getting stale. Let them just reach a reasonable agreement and let universities open

The system from top to bottom is messed up. Thieves everywhere. The system needs to be overhauled. Lecturers siphoning students. Government officials collecting bribes. Immigration disturbing you for extra money to give you passport.

SARS kidnapping you.

Local governments totally useless

Buhari extremely docile and insensitive to what is happening.

Really happy we are alive to tell our story

You paid only those on ippis.
And whose fault was it that they got paid twice.






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sinkhole:
I can't see good out of today's meeting I pray I am wrong
Why is it that this Nwajiuba is worse than Adamu, in his utterances

You observed

The guy is just a crude man with diarrhoea mouth

God please show your mercy by coming down to help your faithful children...this is becoming unbearable

Corruption everywhere

scrap IPPIS if its not working. Is it by force

ASUU & FG should keep playing with the future of the youth. They would meet their Waterloo very soon.

Like play like play... dis year wan end and universities never resume. Dis country self... Corona don go and ASUU still dey on lockdown. What about our NPFL self? Another set of lockdown guys