The Joint Action Committee (JAC)of the Non Academic Staff
Union of educational and associated institutions and the senior staff of
Nigerian universities (SSANU) have developed and presented a new payment
platform to the federal government.
The platform, which has been named university peculiar
personnel and payroll system (U3PS), was presented to Adamu Adamu, Education
Minister, in his office in Abuja on Tuesday.
The unions like the Academic Staff Union of Universities
(ASUU) had rejected the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System
(IPPIS), introduced by the federal government for the payment of workers’
salaries. But while ASUU had come up with the University Transparency
Accountability System (UTAS), the JAC of SSANU and NASU opted to devlop U3PS.
Mohammed Ibrahim, president, SSANU, while presenting the
platform to the Minister, said it serves as an alternative to IPPIS through
which all personnel in the university system will be paid.
According to him, IPPIS was full of inconsistencies “so much
that our members could no longer bear and were 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.”
“We looked within us and found out that we have technical
and ICT experts that can help us develop an alternative to IPPIS.”