shun its planned move to include university lecturers into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System .
Awopetu expressed the unions contempt for corruption and stressed the need for the Federal Government not to truncate the autonomy of the University system or reduce universities to local communities orAwopetu stated in the statement that “while ASUU is not averse to transparency and accountability to the Nation, including the university system, we believe this can be achieved in a way that will not truncate the autonomy of the University system or reduce our universities to local communities...
“A distributed system whereby each University manages its database, and the mirror is available to the Federal Government, ensures a peer review as well as checks and balances. “A centralized system is prone to more corruption than a distributed system. This is further reinforced by corruption cases already discovered within a short time of test running of IPPIS, like the report of the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation claiming that OAGF was unable to provide records covering about N23 billion in the IPPIS operation transaction accounts”
“ASUU FUTA feels that the FGN‘s claim that some academics are working in multiple Universities is mere cheap blackmail. Assuming, without conceding, that an academic is working; in one Federal university and two or more state or private Universities. there is no way the current IPPIS would be able to detect the act as IPPIS is only for Federal Universities. ASUU is in a better position to solve such a problem, If allowed.
“It is ironic that in this 21st century when Government should be thinking at freeing the University system of government bureaucracy to make it more attractive to academics from all over the world, Government seems to be strengthening the bureaucracy thereby devaluing University system the more”
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