The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA is to, again, subject the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS and the two other proposed payment solutions proposed by University workers to an integrity test.
According to a report, the directive was given by President Muhammadu Buhari over the weekend, as part of the efforts, the Federal Government is making toward ensuring that the Consequential Adjustment/ minimum wage arrears are paid to the striking university workers this week in order to persuade them to call off the ongoing strike.
At the onset of the strike, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and the non-teaching staff Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, have lamented that they were being shortchanged in their salary payment since the government introduced IPPIS as the official payment platform, amongst other grievances.
As an alternative, ASUU proposed to the government the University Transparency Accountability Solution, UTAS, while SSANU and NASU on their own, proposed the University Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System, U3PS.
SSANU and NASU claimed that the proposed U3PS
accommodate the peculiarities in the Nigerian University system as it handles all employees’ financial records in a hassle-free, automated fashion.
