The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that its members were yet to receive their February and March salaries as promised by the Federal Government.
Naija Buzz News had reported that Dr. Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, stated that President Muhammadu Buhari ordered that lecturers who did not enroll in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) platform should be paid.
ASUU however noted that as of Friday, April 24, none of its members had received their salaries.
The President of ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, noted that the union would write the Ministry of Finance to protest an apparent deliberate attempt by the IPPIS Office to complicate the process.
He noted that President Buhari directed the payment of lecturers without any condition. However the agencies responsible have refused to carryout the instruction.
“If the agencies responsible refuse to carry out the directive, we are doing a letter of protest to the minister affiliated and to other quarters who should be aware of these deliberate efforts by IPPIS to derail this process of paying the salary to those who have been unjustly deprived.
“ASUU is not rejecting the payment of salary as directed; what ASUU is rejecting is the condition attached to the payment. From our understanding of what the President said, there should be no condition. We also know that the President directed the Minister of Finance to device any means so that the salary withheld be paid latest April 24.
“There is no way Mr President could have gathered the Bank Verification Numbers of scattered lecturers within three days. Our members are not on campus for them to fill forms at bursary.
“We see the BVN condition as a way of putting a wedge on the way; it is a way of ensuring that the directive is not carried out and our members are not happy with it. The universities have all the information they need to pay our members their withheld salaries.”
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