IPPIS: 95 lecturers owed 13-month salary in Bauchi - ASUU - Unimaid Information

Read more................. The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Tuesday lamented that no fewer than 95 of its members in three institutions in Bauchi zone have not been paid their salaries for up to 13 months. The Zonal Coordinator, ASUU, Bauchi Zone, Prof. Lawan Abubakar, who disclosed this during a Press conference held at the union’s Secretariat, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, said that since they were “forced” on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, some of their members have continuously been omitted from salary payments every month. He said: “The inconsistencies observed in the application of the IPPIS in the payments of salaries, remittances of third-party deductions have continued in all the Federal Universities. Since the introduction of IPPIS in February 2020, our members have continued to be omitted from the payments of salary on monthly basis. “This is the situation across all the Federal Universities in the country. Every month when salary is paid, a different set of staff will have their names omitted from the payment for that particular month. “As we speak now, about 61 lecturers from the University of Jos, are being owed salary arrears of 2 to 13 months; it is the same situation in ATBU, Bauchi which has 16 lecturers and Federal University of Kashere with 18 lecturers. “This is deliberate and amounts to victimization of ASUU members by IPPIS Office as a ploy to force them to enrol, thereby frustrating the implementation of UTAS (University Transparency and Accountability Solution), as agreed before the strike was suspended in 2020.” He noted that the salaries paid to their members are not commensurate with their ranks, based on the prevailing salary table, wondering where the “unauthorized” deductions are taken to.