Strike: Subject IPPIS to integrity test, ASUU challenges FG

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has challenged the federal government to subject the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) to the integrity test.

ASUU, which has been on strike since February 15, is demanding the replacement of IPPIS with the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) for salary payment in the university system.

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Speaking yesterday at the University of Jos, Plateau State, ASUU Zonal Coordinator, Bauchi Zone, Professor Lawan Abubakar, said UTAS was developed to address the peculiarities of the university system which the IPPIS failed to do.

He expressed worry that despite subjecting UTAS to the integrity test twice, the Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), which scored the software over 90 per cent, misled the public that UTAS failed the tests.

He challenged NITDA to subject IPPIS to the same integrity test, warning that if the agency failed to heed their call, ASUU would be left with no option but to expose the politicians behind IPPIS, who are feeding on it.

Abubakar, therefore, called on well-meaning Nigerians to call the Ministry of Communications and NITDA to order.

“They should be patriotic and ethical in their conduct by adhering to the reports on the UTAS integrity tests in the interest of ending the current strike,” he added.