IPPIS: We are prepared for starvation, ASUU Insists as FG withholds 8 months salaries

Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) on Thursday vowed to continue to withstand any form of starvation deployed by the Federal government to compel its members to reverse it’s a position with the ongoing strike.

The lecturers also declared that no amount of deprivation, including the withholding of eight months salaries, would force them to enrol on the controversial Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

Speaking to Journalists at Bayero University, Kano, the Coordinator of ASUU Kano Zone, Professor Mahmud Lawan expressed disappointment that the impasse between the union and Federal government was left prolonged due to government insincerity to fulfil it’s part of bargain entered into willing.

Professor Lawan who expressed concern over government failure to meeting all pending issues with the union, however, declared that the prevailing ASUU refusal to key into IPPIS was just a fragment of compelling demands.

The union leader alleged that Federal government had decided to be embarking on media propaganda and cheap blackmail to win public sentiment instead of fulfilling agreement signed on funding for revitalization of public universities, ASUU’s earned academic allowance, and agreement on visitation panels.

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Professor Mahmud who restated the commitment of the zone to sustain the fight against the salvation of university system in Nigeria decried what he considered as the irresponsive posture of the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the prolonged impasse.

Professor Mahmud who challenged the concern authorities on the newly developed University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) as alternative payment platform insisted that ASUU would not be compelled to accept what he described as “foreign-based” IPPIS.

” The zone is worried about the irresponsive posture of the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the future of education and youth in our dear nation. Worse in performance in this matter is the office of the Honourable Minister of Education who has failed to mediate adequately between the union and the office of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

” The office of the Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment which is supposed to serve in conciliatory capacity has instead, became a government propaganda machine throughout the engagement and has woefully failed in its mandate to mediate dispassionately.”