IPPIS: ASUP Issues FG 21 days Ultimatum to address Key issues or…
Academic staff Union of Polytechnic
… wants its demands to the federal government implemented
By Lawrence Nwimo
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), has warned the federal government that it has just three weeks to adhere to agreements as well as resolve issues affecting the Union.
The warning was contained in a communique delivered at the 96th National Executive Council Meeting of the body at the federal polytechnic Oko, Anambra state, even as the union used the opportunity to review the refusal of the government to respond to several correspondences on the issues which has been a subject of serious concern.
Stating the position of the Academic staff union of polytechnics on the ‘Renewed Threats to the Survival of Polytechnic education in Nigeria’, the union president, Comrade Dutse Yusuf Usman decried the attempts at forceful enrollment of the ASUP members into the integrated personnel and payroll information system (IPPIS) stating that no demonstrable evidence has been put forward to suggest that the template for the actualization of IPPIS captures peculiarity associated with tertiary institutions globally.
The Union President blamed government for non implementation of the federal polytechnic ACT 2019 amendment as well as the continued victimization of the Union officers. He said that the refusal of federal government to honour entries made to reconvene and renegotiate ASUP/Federal government 2010 agreement will only breed distrust and lack of harmony in the sector.
Comrade Usman said that the union had complained about insertions that undermined global best practices in tertiary education in the country as well as violation in the implementation of the 2017 MoS signed with the government.
He however, reiterated that the union has and will remain consistent in the struggles in the conviction that only and efficiently run educational system will deliver the nation’s quest for a knowledge driven economy.
He added that the recent events in the sector have awakened the consciousness to the Union’s strategic position in the sector and the responsibility to ensure that the sector does not collapse.
