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I think it is a wise decision, let them join too.

With IPPIS the EAA Earn Academic Allowance would be paid to individual account of all University employees, no more situation that ASUU will collect money on behalf of University and take 80percent. One of ASUU greediness curbed.

ASUU is a Scam

Both ASUU and their university councils are corrupt, go to universities and see how they share and loot money, for those who don't know, council members are politicians who are compensated for one reason or the other, they are not saints, their sole aim is to get money for the next election

Asquare84:
Bross if I should tell you the number of appointment letter that have been issued in the last two months you will be marveled, a federal college of education issued out 400 appointment letter in two weeks backdated the appointment to years back and this are ghost workers that some staff have been collecting their salaries in the same way federal university wukari have issued out over 1000 appointment in one month. If I should start mentioning higher institution here Nigerian will be ashamed of our country

My advice to Nigerian govt is that they should not back down on threat by ASUU not to join ippis

Their is something ASUU is protecting which is ghost workers

You've said it all.

The fraud in our education system is one reason the country itself is not growing. ALL tertiary institution in Nigeria is culpable of this fraud. All of them I know, UNILAG, YABATECH, FCE Akoka, all of them carried out emergency recruitment last month.

In the end, nobody really cares about NIGERIA, so the fraud is only moving to a higher circle (IPPIS).

Corruption ALWAYS evolve in Nigeria.

Iolo:
FIRS and CBN are revenue generating bodies and they pay salaries from revenues they generate. Hence they may be exempted from IPPIS since the government doesn’t pay their staff from its coffers directly.

The Nigerian Army and Police have all joined the IPPIS scheme and one thing everyone will agree with is that it has helped to curb the era of ghost workers.

ASUU unfortunately is afraid that it’s arbitrary deductions from lecturer dues will negatively affect its ability to raise funds. Till date I am yet to see any lecturer or non-teaching staff who outside of ASUU complain against IPPIS.

It brings about a new level of transparency our universities simply aren’t accustomed to.

Many of the issues raised above like accommodations for lecturers above 70 years are system configured features that can be changed for university staff.

Not to mention that until our universities are able to pay salaries from their own IGR the claim of independence from government remains mute.

Uhm, CBN is not a revenue generating body please

sinkhole:
*8. Higher taxes. 
To help arrest the incessant brain drain* whereby Nigerian academics migrate in droves because they too often get better offers abroad, their annual income taxes are jointly negotiated between the unions and the tax authorities. It is a well known fact that workers already on the IPPIS pay higher taxes than they previously paid. Lecturers are not happy to be overtaxed for substandard or non-existent public utilities and municipal services.

This one here seriously annoyed me: so folks that are not members of ASUU paying the so-called high taxes funding these same universities where the Lecturers are inept and rapey do not deserve tax rebates abi? ASUU is really crazy.

IPPIS is a scam
It's been a year since my office was forced to join this platform and we have been on almost half salary since then. The issue hasn't been resolved in over a year.

The showdown between ASUU and government go baaaaaaaad next year. Thank God I have graduate

Atigba:
IPPIS IS A SCAM

Why is IPPIS a scam? Pls explain

RisenPhoenix:
These lecturers think that we are illiterate. Point 5 is the only valid one for not wanting IPPIS and that door should be closed. 'Visiting lecturer' clause can be overabused, from the school not hiring a needed permanent lecturer for a course (while including it in expenses), to having a lecturer spending more time 'visiting' other institutions while neglecting his place of permanent employment; only to show up a week to exams and start selling out poorly written, unexplained handouts or textbooks written by himself specifically for that purpose.

Gbam!

Asquare84:
Bross if I should tell you the number of appointment letter that have been issued in the last two months you will be marveled, a federal college of education issued out 400 appointment letter in two weeks backdated the appointment to years back and this are ghost workers that some staff have been collecting their salaries in the same way federal university wukari have issued out over 1000 appointment in one month. If I should start mentioning higher institution here Nigerian will be ashamed of our country

My advice to Nigerian govt is that they should not back down on threat by ASUU not to join ippis

Their is something ASUU is protecting which is ghost workers

You are very correct, the employment letter been issued in the last 3 weeks in most of the tertiary institution will shuck you, to me ASUU is using delay tactics to cover up their mess.

You don't put civil servants and university lecturers in the same bracket. It makes a lot of sense to put like terms together, and the Federal Government may wish to consider my proposal to customize the IPPIS into the Tertiary Institutions Payroll System (TIPS) for the university community and allied institutions.

Nwaonyishi69:
Fela calls this 'argument argument'. When will the national assembly and other politicians have control. You better let ASUU be.

That's the truth Bro. If people are complaining og corruption in our education system, how is that compared to the looting by our national assembly? How is that compared to the corruption going on at the location governments, where the council Chairman and few top officials sit and share allocations without any projects no show for it.
I have listened to concrete arguments put forth against IPPIS by ICT experts. It won't work, the system was developed by world bank many years ago and countries that adopted it later discovered it's unworkability.
They should ASUU be, if Nigerian universities are to run fully autonomous and become self funding, more than 70% of Nigerians won't be able to afford Tertiary education with this failed economy.
If we are true to ourselves, then we should know the country is not running as it should be, most government agencies are just a burden to the system. They are not generating income to the system

Iolo:
FIRS and CBN are revenue generating bodies and they pay salaries from revenues they generate. Hence they may be exempted from IPPIS since the government doesn’t pay their staff from its coffers directly.

The Nigerian Army and Police have all joined the IPPIS scheme and one thing everyone will agree with is that it has helped to curb the era of ghost workers.

ASUU unfortunately is afraid that it’s arbitrary deductions from lecturer dues will negatively affect its ability to raise funds. Till date I am yet to see any lecturer or non-teaching staff who outside of ASUU complain against IPPIS.

It brings about a new level of transparency our universities simply aren’t accustomed to.

Many of the issues raised above like accommodations for lecturers above 70 years are system configured features that can be changed for university staff.

Not to mention that until our universities are able to pay salaries from their own IGR the claim of independence from government remains mute.

Why did they join contributory pension scheme? Why didn't they talk of autonomy in the case of pension? Visiting lecturers should be paid from overhead budget and not personnel. Judiciary is on Ippis and are 70years retirement age so the argument on 65years is unfounded. EAA allowance can be paid once the platform is designed to pay it. In the hospital, specialist allowance, call duty of different kinds, rural, shifting etc are included in the platform but are not in the core ministry under the same Ippis. They should not be talking like novice but do some homework. Something is actually hidden

Iolo:
FIRS and CBN are revenue generating bodies and they pay salaries from revenues they generate. Hence they may be exempted from IPPIS since the government doesn’t pay their staff from its coffers directly.

The fact that some public institutions are revenue generating bodies should not preclude them from being enrolled on IPPIS if the Federal Government really want them to be on the platform. Conferring a special status on 'revenue generating' bodies like the CBN is the stupid reason the CBN staff are paid far above the staff of other agencies who are contributing no less to the socio-economic development of Nigeria. I keep asking myself, is an accountant working in the CBN doing more than an accountant working in the OAGF? Or is a medical doctor in the NNPC doing more work than a medical doctor in the Federal Ministry of Health? Minimum wage aside, there is need for salary harmonization so that a computer analyst with the PTDF, for example, is at par with a computer analyst with the FCTA.

The normal retirement age for regular civil servants is is 60 NOT 65 years as stated in this write up,

sinkhole:
The media has been inundated with speculations on imminent strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the face-off between members of the union and the Federal Government for their refusal to register on Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), the new platform for the payment of Federal civil servants’ salaries.

*Very much like the Nigerian Armed Forces, Judiciary, National Assembly, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), among others, Nigerian university lecturers are not federal civil servants in the strict sense of the word.*

ASUU National president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, recently declared the outright rejection of the IPPIS platform by members of the union at a press conference on 11th December 2019, after the union’s National Executive committee (NEC) meeting held at the Federal University of Technology, Minna between 7th and 8th December 2019. The following are ten reasons why ASUU has rejected the IPPIS:

*1. Emasculation of University Councils.*
 The ultimate authority put in place for the smooth running of a university is the university council. With the IPPIS, the body becomes severely marginalised and rendered as powerless as a toothless bulldog. 

*2. Violation of world best practices on university autonomy.* 
Lecturers are of the opinion that surrendering the micro-management of individual staff salaries to an external body instead of the university bursar is a flagrant violation of university autonomy. With this system, dissident or compliant lecturers can be singled out for reward or sanction without the input of the university where they serve.  

*3. A breach of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement.* 
The new platform is seen as a crude attempt to undermine the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement about the welfare of university lecturers. Lecturers appear to be in agreement that this must not be allowed to happen.

*4. Tactful reneging on the FG/ASUU agreement on the payment of earned academic allowances (EAA).* 
There has been a long running battle between the FG and ASUU since the days of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Minister of Finance on the payment of earned academic allowances (EAA) to the lecturers. Up till now, Nigerian lecturers are still being owed several years backlog of unpaid EAA. With the IPPIS, such arrears together with its expected incorporation into the lecturers’ salary structure will become history.

*5. Loss of remuneration for visiting lecturers for academic services.*
From time immemorial, universities worldwide have a culture of encouraging intellectual rubbing of minds, whereby experienced academics visit other universities as visiting lecturers, external examiners, collaborative research and more. This global best practice is anathema to IPPIS; hence the remuneration of visiting lecturers and other researchers in this category is not captured on its rigid platform.

*6. It is unduly expensive.* 
A major reason why ASUU is not in support of the IPPIS is that it sees it as a glorified scam. The union recently alleged that the FG is planning to pay contractors handling the project up to N2 Billion if all academic and non-teaching staff members are enrolled. This figure was arrived at by multiplying the contractors’ charge of N16,000 per person per month with the total number of federal university workers.

*7. Fears that lecturers above 65 years old will not be captured.*
 The normal retirement age for regular civil servants is 65, but a special dispensation has been granted lecturers in the professorial cadre to retire at 70. This agreement was reached a few years back in accordance with global best practices. This fear by ASUU is real as the FG has not responded satisfactorily to put the worries of the lecturers to rest.

*8. Higher taxes. 
To help arrest the incessant brain drain* whereby Nigerian academics migrate in droves because they too often get better offers abroad, their annual income taxes are jointly negotiated between the unions and the tax authorities. It is a well known fact that workers already on the IPPIS pay higher taxes than they previously paid. Lecturers are not happy to be overtaxed for substandard or non-existent public utilities and municipal services.

*9. Fears on non-payment of salary arrears arising from delays in processing promotions.* 
The system of promotion in universities is such that the internal and external procedures are lengthy and cumbersome. In some universities like Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, it could takes up to five or more years before the announcement of a person’s promotion into the professorial cadre. It is widely believed that the IPPIS does not have provision for the payment of such salary arrears.  


*10. Serious infractions arising from errors, shortfalls and non-payment of salaries.* 
There is ample evidence from the experience of institutions already on the platform that errors in the system often manifest in the form of shortfalls or non-payment of staff salaries. The experience of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in which the November 2019 salaries of staff members were unpaid is instructive on this matter. Unlike in the past when payment errors are corrected locally, there are reports that affected staff members on the IPPIS have to visit Abuja personally to get payment errors rectified.

To be fair to ASUU, some of the issues raised above can be negotiated and factored on to a platform managed by the National Universities Commission (NUC), but the dictatorial arrogance with which the FG is dealing with the union does not augur well for the intellectual health of the country. The FG needs to come down from its high horse and allow universities to manage its finances in line with global best practices if it truly desires the advancement of this country.

johannu:
The fact that some public institutions are revenue generating bodies should not preclude them from being enrolled on IPPIS if the Federal Government really want them to be on the platform. Conferring a special status on 'revenue generating' bodies like the CBN is the stupid reason the CBN staff are paid far above the staff of other agencies who are contributing no less to the socio-economic development of Nigeria. I keep asking myself, is an accountant working in the CBN doing more than an accountant working in the OAGF? Or is a medical doctor in the NNPC doing more work than a medical doctor in the Federal Ministry of Health? Minimum wage aside, there is need for salary harmonization so that a computer analyst with the PTDF, for example, is at par with a computer analyst with the FCTA.

Well said.

You are 100% correct. It is a fact.
The level of corruption amongst our lecturers is second to none.
I know of a Prof. whose office has been closed till I graduated only to know that he was a VC to one of the new generation Universities.
These Lecturers are not giving us chance and space to get opportunities in the sector.
They can lecture in about 5 institutions and collect pay from there.
This is unfortunate.

Asquare84:
Bross if I should tell you the number of appointment letter that have been issued in the last two months you will be marveled, a federal college of education issued out 400 appointment letter in two weeks backdated the appointment to years back and this are ghost workers that some staff have been collecting their salaries in the same way federal university wukari have issued out over 1000 appointment in one month. If I should start mentioning higher institution here Nigerian will be ashamed of our country

My advice to Nigerian govt is that they should not back down on threat by ASUU not to join ippis

Their is something ASUU is protecting which is ghost workers

sinkhole:
The media has been inundated with speculations on imminent strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the face-off between members of the union and the Federal Government for their refusal to register on Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), the new platform for the payment of Federal civil servants’ salaries.

*Very much like the Nigerian Armed Forces, Judiciary, National Assembly, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), among others, Nigerian university lecturers are not federal civil servants in the strict sense of the word.*

ASUU National president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, recently declared the outright rejection of the IPPIS platform by members of the union at a press conference on 11th December 2019, after the union’s National Executive committee (NEC) meeting held at the Federal University of Technology, Minna between 7th and 8th December 2019. The following are ten reasons why ASUU has rejected the IPPIS:

*1. Emasculation of University Councils.*
 The ultimate authority put in place for the smooth running of a university is the university council. With the IPPIS, the body becomes severely marginalised and rendered as powerless as a toothless bulldog. 

*2. Violation of world best practices on university autonomy.* 
Lecturers are of the opinion that surrendering the micro-management of individual staff salaries to an external body instead of the university bursar is a flagrant violation of university autonomy. With this system, dissident or compliant lecturers can be singled out for reward or sanction without the input of the university where they serve.  

*3. A breach of the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement.* 
The new platform is seen as a crude attempt to undermine the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement about the welfare of university lecturers. Lecturers appear to be in agreement that this must not be allowed to happen.

*4. Tactful reneging on the FG/ASUU agreement on the payment of earned academic allowances (EAA).* 
There has been a long running battle between the FG and ASUU since the days of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Minister of Finance on the payment of earned academic allowances (EAA) to the lecturers. Up till now, Nigerian lecturers are still being owed several years backlog of unpaid EAA. With the IPPIS, such arrears together with its expected incorporation into the lecturers’ salary structure will become history.

*5. Loss of remuneration for visiting lecturers for academic services.*
From time immemorial, universities worldwide have a culture of encouraging intellectual rubbing of minds, whereby experienced academics visit other universities as visiting lecturers, external examiners, collaborative research and more. This global best practice is anathema to IPPIS; hence the remuneration of visiting lecturers and other researchers in this category is not captured on its rigid platform.

*6. It is unduly expensive.* 
A major reason why ASUU is not in support of the IPPIS is that it sees it as a glorified scam. The union recently alleged that the FG is planning to pay contractors handling the project up to N2 Billion if all academic and non-teaching staff members are enrolled. This figure was arrived at by multiplying the contractors’ charge of N16,000 per person per month with the total number of federal university workers.

*7. Fears that lecturers above 65 years old will not be captured.*
 The normal retirement age for regular civil servants is 65, but a special dispensation has been granted lecturers in the professorial cadre to retire at 70. This agreement was reached a few years back in accordance with global best practices. This fear by ASUU is real as the FG has not responded satisfactorily to put the worries of the lecturers to rest.

*8. Higher taxes. 
To help arrest the incessant brain drain* whereby Nigerian academics migrate in droves because they too often get better offers abroad, their annual income taxes are jointly negotiated between the unions and the tax authorities. It is a well known fact that workers already on the IPPIS pay higher taxes than they previously paid. Lecturers are not happy to be overtaxed for substandard or non-existent public utilities and municipal services.

*9. Fears on non-payment of salary arrears arising from delays in processing promotions.* 
The system of promotion in universities is such that the internal and external procedures are lengthy and cumbersome. In some universities like Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, it could takes up to five or more years before the announcement of a person’s promotion into the professorial cadre. It is widely believed that the IPPIS does not have provision for the payment of such salary arrears.  


*10. Serious infractions arising from errors, shortfalls and non-payment of salaries.* 
There is ample evidence from the experience of institutions already on the platform that errors in the system often manifest in the form of shortfalls or non-payment of staff salaries. The experience of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in which the November 2019 salaries of staff members were unpaid is instructive on this matter. Unlike in the past when payment errors are corrected locally, there are reports that affected staff members on the IPPIS have to visit Abuja personally to get payment errors rectified.

To be fair to ASUU, some of the issues raised above can be negotiated and factored on to a platform managed by the National Universities Commission (NUC), but the dictatorial arrogance with which the FG is dealing with the union does not augur well for the intellectual health of the country. The FG needs to come down from its high horse and allow universities to manage its finances in line with global best practices if it truly desires the advancement of this country.

RUBBISH.
THIEF

IPPIS has been severely compromised. It was meant to be a check to corruption in the civil service. While it minimised graft at the level of parastatals, it significantly has a multiplier effect of corruption among the ministries in Abuja.

If the arrears of EAA will be paid following migration to IPPIS, it will not come on a platter. The money will be calculated and each university will have to go cap in hand to beg at the Accountant general for the release of the funds. If they are lucky to be considered, the ministries in Abuja in connivance with the Accountant General personnel will demand for 20% of the total amount as kickbacks. So at the end, the executives of ASUU in each institution will have to come back to their members with the condition attached to the release of funds. An agreed amount will then be deducted from the arrears of each member to make up that demanded 20% bribe to the ministry.

While in some cases, the whole bribe is a grand scheme only initiated by the staffs in Abuja and the union are helpless, in most cases, it will also include a connivance with the union leaders (ASUU in this case) who will have added their own calculated percentage by the time they are reporting back to members i.e, Abuja may demand 15% bribe to release funds, but the union leaders will report back home that 22% is demanded.

And ASUU's fears that they may have to visit Abuja at every point of salary conflict resolution is valid. When such situation arises, union leaders occasionally cash in on that opportunity to make money off of members by asking that money be donated for them to do the runs, processing and possible monetary incentives of the guys at Abuja.

Taxes have to be paid, yes. I am taxed an upward of 155k monthly. And the IPPIS platform ensures that taxes are paid, not just that but correctly paid cos the deduction is from source. This bypasses the negotiation that takes place between civil servants and the SIRS (state internal revenue service) to reduce the amount deducted for taxes. While adequate and correct payment is a good thing, the refusal of the ruling elites to utilize these taxes for basic infrastructure but instead divert such into their own pockets make payment of taxes such an undesirable burden for an average Nigerian civil servant, a fear that ASUU has rightly outlined as one of their points against IPPIS enrollment.

In terms of remunerations, IPPIS should have been a good place to ensure each staff get what they are entitled to, but sadly it has become a portal through which disgruntled subsets of some professions enforce their financial insecurities on junior colleagues. An example is that of some bad eggs among some head of parastatals that connive with IPPIS desk officers in their centres and those in Abuja to illegally deduct allowances from staff salaries and divert such deductions to be shared among themselves. Preposterous circulars are usually released by the ministries to legitimise such deductions. Removal of rural allowances, specialist allowances etc. are a few of such illegalities that have been successfully perpetrated by these people. So the fears of ASUU in that regards is equally justified.

IPPIS should be constantly audited to ensure that the reasons for which it was established, transparency and accountability, is still maintained. Sadly as is usual with some bad Nigerians who thrive only and best during times of crises, it has been sabotaged and frought with irregularities.

RisenPhoenix:
These lecturers think that we are illiterate. Point 5 is the only valid one for not wanting IPPIS and that door should be closed. 'Visiting lecturer' clause can be overabused, from the school not hiring a needed permanent lecturer for a course (while including it in expenses), to having a lecturer spending more time 'visiting' other institutions while neglecting his place of permanent employment; only to show up a week to exams and start selling out poorly written, unexplained handouts or textbooks written by himself specifically for that purpose.

u de mind them why not engage young mind or trained or better still give them from allowances they make shebi universities don't remit money to Fg...assu are liars

Iolo:
Not to mention that until our universities are able to pay salaries from their own IGR the claim of independence from government remains mute.

I find it hard to wrap my head on the above. Why should ASUU claim to be independent from the Federal Government and yet collect funds from them to run their universities? If they want to be independent they should generate their own revenues.

Nasige:
You are very correct, the employment letter been issued in the last 3 weeks in most of the tertiary institution will shuck you, to me ASUU is using delay tactics to cover up their mess.

and I de find work here with my 2:1 political science Kai this kind country nawa ooo... man knows man still

Please Nlanders, help me here.
Are the tuition fees, sales of textbooks, internal small-scale revenue generation, etc by our universities not enough for them to be independent of the interference from the Federal Government?

OGHENAOGIE:
and I de find work here with my 2:1 political science Kai this kind country nawa ooo... man knows man still

Na So O, Man know Man before you know it them don hand pick their people qualified or not qualified.,

greenguy:
You've said it all.

The fraud in our education system is one reason the country itself is not growing. ALL tertiary institution in Nigeria is culpable of this fraud. All of them I know, UNILAG, YABATECH, FCE Akoka, all of them carried out emergency recruitment last month.

In the end, nobody really cares about NIGERIA, so the fraud is only moving to a higher circle (IPPIS).

Corruption ALWAYS evolve in Nigeria.

So UNILAG and other schools carried out emergency recruitment to cover up for Ghost workers?

This is serious

Gentlesoul96:
Why is IPPIS a scam? Pls explain

It was designed to impoverished lecturers

As an academic, you should not be restricted to one source of income. I can be hired to conduct research in another institution for a consideration, not only within Nigeria but outside the country.

The government should not limit lecturers income to a single source, doing research in different institutions and with other academicians is good for the advancement of science and technology.

ceaser:
IPPIS has been severely compromised. It was meant to be a check to corruption in the civil service. While it minimised graft at the level of parastatals, it significantly has a multiplier effect of corruption among the ministries in Abuja.

If the arrears of EAA will be paid following migration to IPPIS, it will not come on a platter. The money will be calculated and each university will have to go cap in hand to beg at the Accountant general for the release of the funds. If they are lucky to be considered, the ministries in Abuja in connivance with the Accountant General personnel will demand for 20% of the total amount as kickbacks. So at the end, the executives of ASUU in each institution will have to come back to their members with the condition attached to the release of funds. An agreed amount will then be deducted from the arrears of each member to make up that demanded 20% bribe to the ministry.

While in some cases, the whole bribe is a grand scheme only initiated by the staffs in Abuja and the union are helpless, in most cases, it will also include a connivance with the union leaders (ASUU in this case) who will have added their own calculated percentage by the time they are reporting back to members i.e, Abuja may demand 15% bribe to release funds, but the union leaders will report back home that 22% is demanded.

And ASUU's fears that they may have to visit Abuja at every point of salary conflict resolution is valid. When such situation arises, union leaders occasionally cash in on that opportunity to make money off of members by asking that money be donated for them to do the runs, processing and possible monetary incentives of the guys at Abuja.

Taxes have to be paid, yes. I am taxed an upward of 155k monthly. And the IPPIS platform ensures that taxes are paid, not just that but correctly paid cos the deduction is from source. This bypasses the negotiation that takes place between civil servants and the SIRS (state internal revenue service) to reduce the amount deducted for taxes. While adequate and correct payment is a good thing, the refusal of the ruling elites to utilize these taxes for basic infrastructure but instead divert such into their own pockets make payment of taxes such an undesirable burden for an average Nigerian civil servant, a fear that ASUU has rightly outlined as one of their points against IPPIS enrollment.

In terms of remunerations, IPPIS should have been a good place to ensure each staff get what they are entitled to, but sadly it has become a portal through which disgruntled subsets of some professions enforce their financial insecurities on junior colleagues. An example is that of some bad eggs among some head of parastatals that connive with IPPIS desk officers in their centres and those in Abuja to illegally deduct allowances from staff salaries and divert such deductions to be shared among themselves. Preposterous circulars are usually released by the ministries to legitimise such deductions. Removal of rural allowances, specialist allowances etc. are a few of such illegalities that have been successfully perpetrated by these people. So the fears of ASUU in that regards is equally justified.

IPPIS should be constantly audited to ensure that the reasons for which it was established, transparency and accountability, is still maintained. Sadly as is usual with some bad Nigerians who thrive only and best during times of crises, it has been sabotaged and frought with irregularities.

1. You just confirmed what I have always suspected - ASUU is a bunch of corrupt degenerates thieving the sweat of their members.
2. While I agree that corruption leaks away hard-earned taxes from Citizens, I still don't understand why ASUU members should be allowed to pay less taxes than the rest of us mere mortals.
3. Isn't it better to have a single payroll point that can audited than multiple points of failure across the various MDAs?

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NOTE: the main reason is that most lecturers don't want to be captured twice. most of them are on the govt payroll in 2 or 3 universities. they know that they are the one causing unemployment in the universities.

obagangan:
NOTE: the main reason is that most lecturers don't want to be captured twice. most of them are on the govt payroll in 2 or 3 universities. they know that they are the one causing unemployment in the universities.

Rightly said. I’m yet to see a sound counter argument otherwise.