The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) of educational and affiliated institutions and the Senior Staff of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) have designed and proposed to the federal government a new payment platform.
On Tuesday in Abuja, Adamu Adamu, the Education Minister, was presented with the platform, which is known as the university peculiar personnel and payroll system (U3PS).
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other unions had rejected the federal government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) for the payment of workers’ salaries.
The JAC of SSANU and NASU chose to develop U3PS instead of ASUU’s University Transparency Accountability System (UTAS).
While presenting the platform to the Minister, SSANU President Mohammed Ibrahim stated that it serves as an alternative to IPPIS, through which all university workers will be compensated.
IPPIS, he claimed, was riddled with irregularities “to the point where our members could no longer stand it and were getting on our nerves.”
“We believe then that since the government said IPPIS was going to be used to fight corruption we should join hands with the government to give IPPIS a trial and we went through IPPIS from the first month to second and third, to fourth and there about it was full of inconsistencies.”