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RE: IPPIS-FGN VS ASUU; FACTS BEYOND ….RHETORICS
Luqman Soliu
24/10/2019
Even though National Orientation Agency (NOA) and Ministry of Information are moribund under the current administration, I shall let the world knows facts as against rhetoric concerning IPPIS. Some points were ostensibly raised in a write up perhaps by ASUU and I shall discuss the points one by one.
How can an association that is yet to have any significant value on the society claim to let government allow it design a platform that government will use for its salary payment? Has the group designed any platform to ease its own affairs internally and let the world see how useful that platform is? At least, a wise saying relates that we learn from home. Students have missing scripts, sleep with lecturers before they pass and are or subjected to cruel conditions before they graduate. Even those without any outstanding courses wait for years before they collect result and none of the members of the group has designed any platform to eliminate these lapses but they want to return government to its sad days of uncontrolled embezzlement. Design your platform first to fast-track release of result, regular lecture, no more industrial action, and discipline among lecturers and let the world assesses you before allowing you interfere in the nation affairs.
If the claim that each University has a constituted Governing Council by government whose mandate is to, among others, determine for and on behalf of the FGN issues revolving recruitment, promotion, discipline, dismissal, salaries and wages (emoluments), reward and other sundry issues pertaining the University administration is anything to go by, then why does ASUU not allow each chapter determines its demand and stop going on national industrial action if truly it is autonomous of government? Or does ASUU not understand the meaning of autonomy again? If Public universities have autonomy (i.e independence) from government which makes it not entitle to interfere in its affairs such as implementing IPPIS, why then do universities take subvention from government and even demand funding from government including salary increment from government? Why can’t they source and fund the universities by themselves if they are really autonomous which make them opine that IPPIS of government can’t be applied on them? Let them source their fund and apply same. Only then can they justify their autonomy. Some ASUU members with private establishments, why do you refuse to allow your staff to have labour unions? Or are they not human beings like you? Let us stop blind sympathy for a deleterious group that waste students’ time! We may need to adopt University of Ilorin theory to sanitize our societies of selfish groups.
The idea that government in the past allowed ASUU to intimidate it into shifting from IPPIS to GIFMIS holds no water today the same way students allowed to write research work in the past years manually are now mandated to type it. Situation changes and so we must improve in that direction. GIFMIS did not achieve desired result like IPPIS and if academic environment does not appreciate improvement in our mode of living, are students in safe hands?
No point at all in university professors retirement age of 70 years to reject IPPIS. IPPIS has peculiarities to accommodate variant retirement age. And government has demonstrated this to ASUU and other academic and research-based institutes which have accepted the realities except ASUU. Only those who still want to defraud the nation object to IPPIS. IPPIS works like Time Access Management System (TAMS) whereby the user designs it to favour its peculiar nature of job. IPPIS can therefore accommodate retirement age of 70years for professors.
IPPIS makes provision for occasional expenses on staff recruitment or promotion or engagement of irregular staff and similar affairs and that is why it incorporates non-IPPIS in a separate form for such activities. Agencies that are self-accounting using IPPIS are particularly allowed to have non-IPPIS salary arrangement and various agencies in this situation abound for confirmation. So, even if Professors want to be assessing themselves every year, there is room for it. Knowledge is power when one searches for and acquires correct one!
If IPPIS is implemented fully, ghost workers would be reduced and money into thin air saved to employ more unemployed youths. That is why the rate of recruitment in 2019 has been surprising because government has been able to save money. The only challenge is that those benefiting from ghost workers don’t want the usual business to stop so that additional jobs won’t be created.
I remain your boy SLM

RE: IPPIS REJECTION: ASUU SHOULD STOP BEING A DISGRACE TO NIGERIA, EMBODIMENT OF CORRUPTION
Sequel to the Press release by Rights and Freedom Advocates (RIFA) on 22 October, 2019 on the above subject, we have received some reactions. While some reactions were altruistic, others are self-serving. RIFA as a body will always be on the part of justice and fairness most especially defending the national interest as against individualistic interest.
One of our fathers and a Professor at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife engaged us in an intellectual discourse and eventually he agreed with us and would have shifted his earlier ground from the lies being fed to the public by those opposing IPPIS implementation. RIFA does not belong to any of the opposing parties in the confrontation on IPPIS implementation but our zeal for national interest would not allow us support perfidious citizens
Let us be factual and let the public know the reality. Before implementation of IPPIS, huge extra-budget provisions are made on monthly basis in excess of salaries and other claims of known staff of government MDAs. At the time of release of fund for salaries and overheads, the extra-budget provisions would leave government purse at the centre to designated MDAs. However, at the receiving MDAs collaborating officer(s) would deduct his/their portion and send balance to the cronies’ personal accounts after withdrawing the excess in form of cash for the MDAs use. Through that, they circumvent audit trail. This practice continues in MDAs yet to adopt IPPIS.
Similarly, various claims such as training and development allowances are made in the names of unsuspecting junior staff by collaborating senior staff and vouchers raised to defraud the state. As the collaborating officers receive the money into their individual coffers, the junior staff whose names are used are often oblivious of the deal and where they are even aware they cannot do anything to their boss. And so remain silent forever while they are being defrauded. With IPPIS, every staff collect his salary directly except those not on IPPIS.
More so, when IPPIS implementation is not implemented, any junior staff is sanctioned at a minor disagreement by senior staff and the salaries of the junior staff seized for as long as satisfies the interest of the senior staff. Some of them take the seized fund out of government purse and fix it in fixed deposits in banks and receive the interest before returning it to penalized staff. As IPPIS implementation came, such lawlessness is eliminated and most staff now get their salaries from central purse. So, those who felt short-changed by the new policy are now trying their best to lie to the public to continue their greed against the nation. If they are sincere, most of them with businesses should start allowing their maids to dictate to them on how to be paying such maids. Otherwise they are simply not sincere to Nigeria and should be seen as treacherous citizens
Luqman Soliu
For RIFA