IPPIS: Lecturers raise the alarm over non-payment of salary, accuses ASUU of ‘selling out’

A Group, which styled itself as “Academics without Barriers” has raised an alarm saying the situation whereby lecturers have not been paid for some months now simply because they have failed to enrol on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) is not too good enough.
“The so called IPPIS is another recipe for disaster. It is unthoughtful, lacking in basic intelligence, without defined, unified purpose. It simply takes away the University autonomy”.
In a statement on Sunday and signed by its National Coordinator, Mallam Isa Abu, the group said the economic situation in Nigeria will be more chaotic and worsened if the aggrieved lecturers down tools and Universities are closed down.
The Group has also faulted the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) saying its action concerning the issue of enrollment on IPPIS and payment of salaries to its members has shown that the once vibrant organisation has sold out.
The Group has, therefore, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the matter and ensure that University lecturers are paid their salaries at as when due while the issue of IPPIS is put under review and in fact discarded entirely because it is unnecessary and useless.
“With various insecurity situation in the country, we cannot add another avoidable crisis. These University lecturers are human beings and they also have families to take care of. The economic situation in the country is tough and they deserve their salaries for them to discharge their duties effectively”, the group said.