- Now, ASUU should know that its members have also been indicted for fraud too on many instances including some VCs. So, they are not a Spartan institution to be given a corruption-clean certificate.
We have all known the issue of “ghost” workers is a funny but serious one in government over the years. The Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System platform to pay government workers will to a large extent filter away “ghost” workers. We all know ghosts here walk on four legs, have two hands and speak human languages.
What the Acadmeic Staff Union of Universities should rather ask for is the review of implementation to insulate it from being an instrument to be abused by government to make some institutions kowtow before it.
Now, ASUU should know that its members have also been indicted for fraud too on many instances including some VCs. So, they are not a Spartan institution to be given a corruption-clean certificate.
ASUU should ordinarily be in the vanguard of reforms for anything that will aid transparency. In the public or private sector, we should all be advocating global best practices. This is one of them.
The university lecturers’ position is against public opinion, sound reasoning and law of contract. Anyone who is not pleased with the IPPIS is free to transfer service to any of the private universities around. Let all of them resign to prove that they are serious. You can ask for good welfare from your employers and other rights, but you cannot dictate how you should be paid.
On this one, ASUU got it wrong.
