SAN FRANCISCO, January 24, (THEWILL) – Tertiary institutions’ workers who have not voluntarily enrolled to receive their monthly salaries in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) will not be paid henceforth as government moves to fully implement the IPPIS system effective January 2020.
The government argues that the payment system will help curb corruption.
In a letter by the Director of IPPIS at the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), Mr. Olusegun Olufehinti, the OAGF requested the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, to order the stoppage of release of funds for January salaries of the federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education.
The letter dated January 21, 2020, with reference number: OAGF/IPPIS/19/11/54 and entitled: “Request for Stoppage of Release of Funds for January Salaries to Federal Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education,” reads: “I am directed to inform you that the preparation of January 2020 salary payroll and warrants of the federal tertiary institutions are ongoing and will be ready for submission on or before January 29, 2020.
“This is to give effect to the directive of the federal government that all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) drawing personal cost for the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) should be enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
“In order to actualise this directive, you are please requested not to release funds for payments of the tertiary institutions as their salaries will henceforth be paid on the IPPIS Platform with effect from January 2020.”
THEWIL recalls that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has vehemently resented the payment system arguing that it violates autonomy of tertiary institutions.
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