The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has pointed
out why it won’t call off the industrial action embarked upon by its members.
The Coordinator of the Calabar Zone of ASUU, Dr. Aniekan
Brown said the industrial action would continue as long as the government
insists on the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System, IPPIS.
Addressing journalists yesterday in Calabar, the Cross River
State capital, Brown described IPPIS as a cesspool of corruption.
He also dismissed claims by the Government that 71,000 ASUU
members had already accepted to register with the IPPIS.
Describing the claim as incorrect, Brown insisted that such was
a distraction to the academic body.
He said: “The distraction known as IPPIS is a cesspool of
corruption and Federal Government’s illicit commitment, hard-work,
determination and treachery to forcibly migrate employees of Federal
universities to the IPPIS platform.
“Government’s claim is not true. We challenge the
authorities to the fact that we are not up to 71,000 members. The Minister for
Finance, Budget and National Planning had earlier said 71,000 members of ASUU
had accepted to register on the IPPIS platform. So, the Government’s statistics
are faulty and mere propaganda.
“We will not resume work until Government addresses our
demands, ASUU members have not been paid for between four and nine months. We
are still in the trenches.”
“We argued that it is a case of economic waste, because ASUU
has been rejecting the IPPIS since 2013 and Government challenged us to produce
an alternative. We took up the challenge and came up with UTAS.”
It is a ceespool of corruption describing the Government system is a grave statement but the government will rather than correct it will seek to distract, divide and rule tactics. Falsely claiming that 71000 have subscribed to it and want to hold out further to see if there will be cracks on the wall of ASUU. That's their wicked strategy. It's common place in the Zoo.
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