ASUU threatens nationwide strike over IPPIS

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened a nationwide strike if the federal government fails to remit the salaries of its members by the end of October 2019. Ade Adejumo, ASUU coordinator, Ibadan zone, also reiterated the union’s rejection of the Integrated Payment Personnel Information System (IPPIS) allegedly being forced on its members by the federal government. President Muhammadu Buhari had issued a directive for the implementation of the IPPIS to manage the payment of salaries of all federal government workers, while mandating that anyone not registered on the platform will not be paid as from October 31. Speaking with journalists on Sunday, Adejumo accused the government of designing the platform to suppress the masses in the guise of fighting corruption and insisted that the union would go by the matra ‘no pay, no work’ if the issues are not addressed. The union leader described IPPIS as a strange regime of finance that doesn’t conform to the un...