In a new announcement which was put out by the organisation, the head council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has made some suggestions that the method to resolving its ongoing strike action could be done with the full adoption of the transparent payment platform, University Transparency and Accountability Solutions (UTAS) which would be used as an alternative to IPPIS.
The Chairperson of ASUU, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State chapter, Dr Socrates Ebo had in a statement which he had put out made the lamentations that the deep-rooted penchant for corruption within the Nigerian government ethos is all out to frustrate its deployment, while narrating that UTAS has been proven to be a flawless payment platform.
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According to Dr Socrates Ebo, the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), has also been decisively proven to be a porous, easily compromised payment platform.
The chairperson opined that the IPPIS has been ineffective in curtailing waste of resources, while stressing that on the contrary it has been used to pad some of the payrolls and used to affect all manner of fraudulent deductions from workers’ salaries.
He explained, “We definitely can’t continue this way, the adoption of a transparent payment platform is critical to resolving the current impasse in the nation’s university system. UTAS has been proven to be a flawless payment platform but the deep-rooted penchant for corruption in our government ethos is all out to frustrate its deployment.”
He had also made it clear that that no lecturer under the IPPIS structure can say for certain what his salary is, pointing out that what they find queer is the insistence of some government officials on the use of IPPIS when it is proven to be compromised and corruption-prone. He also pointed out that UTAS has been designed to be corruption-proof, asking why the government would not be interested in a payment platform that is cheap, 100% corruption-proof, and 100% indigenous.
It stated that if IPPIS was corruption-proof, the accountant-general of the federation would not have been able to loot ₦80 billion and ₦70 billion.
