ASUU Commences Indefinite Strike

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared an indefinite strike after the expiration of its two-weeks warning strike.

The union’s National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, announced the strike at a press conference in Abuja today.

“The union has decided to embark on total and indefinite strike from Monday 23,2020,” he said.

He added that the union rejected the use of force to enrol on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

The government met with the union twice since the commencement of the warning strike on March 9.

ASUU is embarking on the strike over the non-payment of salaries of their members who failed to enrol into the federal government’s IPPIS, a payroll software mandated for all public officials.

The government, last Thursday, also reached an interim agreement with striking university lecturers to integrate the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) into the IPPIS.

The IPPIS is the government’s accountability software that has been made compulsory for all public institutions, mainly for personnel payroll.

ASUU is opposed to the use of IPPIS for lecturers, saying it does not consider some of the peculiar operations of universities. The lecturers’ union then developed its own UTAS which it wants the government to adopt for universities.

All universities are currently shut after the Federal Government ordered tertiary institutions across the country to close for a month, beginning from March 23, due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

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