The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday said the union will not succumb to pressure on her position to totally reject the federal government’s Integrated Personnel Payroll Scheme (IPPIS) enrolment.
The ASUU Chairman, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) Chapter, Dr. Adamu Babayo, disclosed this at the end of the union’s congress in Bauchi state.
He said that during the meeting their rejection of the scheme was reaffirmed, noting that, “I wish you tell you emphatically that today, we held the best congress ever in the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University. It was a seamless process which had no hindrance, no objection to our position.”
He added: “Everybody in the congress agreed to the position of the union considering the fact that the issues of autonomy and the 2003 agreement before everyone in the campuses and members of our union have consented that yes, we should go ahead and reject the biometric capture that was supposed to start today.”
Babayo said that nobody has come to ATBU for any biometric capture of their members, “not to even start talking of capturing our biometrics and there is no going back on whatever we do.”
According to him, “we are used to pressure, our position is very clear as a union, we had the resolutions at NEC and we came back on the 24th October, at ATBU and took another resolution and we have reaffirmed that position that we are not succumbing to anybody from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation. We will process whatever they will come up with and we will match them word for word.”
He said the union considers the actions of the Accountant General of the Federation as diversionary because the union and the government have had several agreements which have not been implemented.
“Our position as a union is a total and comprehensive rejection of the Accountant General’s directive on registering our members,” he said.
