The activity of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government bunch last Wednesday, fourth November, 2020, the Minister of Labor and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, pledged to transport off the Union government’s created circumstance on ASUU’s response to their basic offer. He said each concerned Ministry, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) would be guided on Friday, 6th November, for their commitments to government’s new position. Nigerians should hang on for us. ASUU is doing their battle.
Our Union is endeavoring to ensure that the posterity of needy individuals, who can’t deal with the expense of the prohibitive cost paid in private schools or don’t have events to focus outside Nigeria, get quality preparing which isn’t assessed past their range. This will potentially happen when government enough backings state supported schools and addresses the rot and decay in them.
ASUU has moved circumstances in specific respects. For instance, our people have diminished their advantage of one tranche (N220b) of the excellent revival hold considerably. The Union has similarly agreed that N30b out of the so far affirmed back installments of N40b of the obtained insightful settlements (EAA) be paid to our people while the balance of N10b could be spread all through the accompanying two tranches.
We were also increasing reliable ground on various issues. What has hindered significant trade was government’s interest that portion of the held pay and various advantages of our people would simply be influenced through the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Government is rebuking school teachers since they excused IPPIS, which was constrained on the universities against the courses of action of the law on freedom and comprehensive practices.
ASUU is at the last period of the decency preliminary of the Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). UTAS was developed locally by ASUU people, not under any condition like IPPIS which was planned by the World Bank.
UTAS has been acquainted with the Minister of Education and senior organization staff of the Ministry, the President and activity of Senate, and the Office of the Accountant-General where NITDA and Office of the National Security Adviser and diverse MDAs were totally addressed. Last Thursday, fifth November, 2020, the National Universities Commission (NUC) energized the acquaintance of UTAS with Vice-Chancellors and Bursars of government schools.
All requests raised at the four levels of presentation of UTAS were pleasingly answered. With the full support of the concerned associations, the last test with NITDA could be done as an issue of days and UTAS got rather than IPPIS in our schools.
ASUU can’t resist negating government on the usage of IPPIS during the alleged advancement time span. In utilitarian terms, there is no change period if government is valid. It would take a more stretched out period to get in excess of 75 percent of our people who are not yet on IPPIS than the time expected to experience the last period of the uprightness test for UTAS. The case by government that the stage used in paying our people’s compensation rates before the bother of IPPIS has been wrecked isn’t right.
A segment of our people who have not chosen IPPIS were paid bit of their held compensation rates seven days back. However, in assistance of the attack on ASUU, the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF) has unlawfully clutched all the deducted affiliation enlistment duty of our people over the latest nine months.
Thusly, government ought to convey all what is normal ASUU people and the relationship without the possibility of IPPIS. That would enable us wrap up on the exceptional five solicitations (revitalisation, EAA, renegotiation of the 2009 Agreement, presentation of the Visitation Panels, extension of state schools and organization issues in them) of the Union to free course for the lively objective from the holding up crisis. It is government that is hauling out the issue, not ASUU. Biodun Ogunyemi President eighth November, 2020
