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ASUU, SSANU Threaten Fresh Strike by Akinjide2001(m): 2:18pm On Jul 28, 2021 |
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 . |
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