Over 90,000 university workers captured under IPPIS

Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 9:39 AM by Nnenna Ibeh

- The federal government has said that 90,000 university lecturers have been captured in the IPPIS payroll system

- FG said that once the processes of capturing are concluded, there would be cleansing of data for payrolling

- According to FG, IPPIS team will again review the data collected to find out if there are people captured in the process that are not supposed to be there

The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation has said that 90,000 university lecturers have been captured under the controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll System (IPPS).

The director of IPPIS, Olufehinti Olusegun, said the process of capturing university staff (lecturers included) is currently ongoing by the federal government despite protests by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.

The Nation reports that the director said that once the processes of capturing is concluded there would be cleansing of data for payrolling.

He also said that the IPPIS team will again review the data collected to find out if there are people captured in the process that are not supposed to be there.

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“We don’t publish wild data from the field to prepare the payroll it has to be reviewed to be sure it meets certain criteria,” Olusegun said.

Over 90,000 university workers captured under IPPIS — The accountant-general of the federation, Anthony Ayine, says tens of thousands of lecturers have enrolled into the programme despite ASUU's protests.
Source: UGC

“We will cross the bridge when we get there. I don’t know their fate, I only know the people that are on the platform."

“I can only speak for people that have been captured it is beyond me to know if they will be paid their December salary the government will do what it has to do when the time comes," he said.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that ASUU had threatened to go on a nationwide strike over FG's plan to use the IPPIS system for payment of its members.

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The national president of the union, Biodun Ogunyemi, said ASUU will activate its standing resolution of “no pay, no work” if the FG insists on IPPIS.