(NEWS) ASUU didn’t go on strike over IPPIS, says UNN-ASUU Chairman

A Chieftain of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in person of Dr Christian Opata declare that "the union’s rejection of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information Management System (IPPIS) has nothing to do with its current strike."

Additionally, Opata, who is the Chairman of ASUU, University of Nigeria, Nsukka chapter, also mentioned this on Monday while addressing News-men on the protracted nationwide action. 

According to him, he said the addressing was to correct the “misinformation” in a national daily, where it was alleged that the union embarked on its action because of IPPIS. 

He also added, "ASUU went on strike because Federal Government failed to honour the 2009 agreement and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it entered with ASUU." “ASUU didn’t go on strike because of a misunderstanding with government on IPPIS as platform for payment of salary. 

Meanwhile, IPPIS issue began back in 2018. Then, ASUU has been calling on the attention of the government to honour the 2009 agreement and various MoUs agreement made with the government. 

Opata said: "In the 2009 agreement as well as the MoUs, government agreed, Some amount of money was to be released to revitalise the decaying infrastructure in public universities and set up visitation panels to know the condition of the universities."

He further added, "the union took strong exception to the feature story in the national daily." “The writer is not fair to ASUU, which has been fighting to ensure the revitalisation of public universities to ensure that students compete with their counterparts globally,” he said. (NAN)