Fg Reaches Agreement With Asuu
ASUU faces a long dispute with the Nigerian government over issues of poor funding of public universities. Whenever the dispute resulted in a teachers` strike, negotiations between the two sides always resulted in agreements. The Federal Ministry of Education should ensure the scrutiny within two weeks (29 October 2020). The meeting agreed that the panel would be inaugurated by the end of November 2020 and that the panel will have a mandate of 4 to 6 weeks to complete its work by December 31, 2020 and present two reports per university for a five-year period from 2011 to 2015 and 2016-2020. “Recent reports show that experienced academics who have special skills and are under contract at different universities are now compensated according to the instructions of IPPIS operators.” “This puts students of unin involved contract agents at great risk. When Nigerian universities are no longer able to make decisions about the caliber and number of academics they need to provide quality education, what remains of the university`s autonomy and academic freedom,” ASUU asked. The minister called the ASUU`s position ridiculous in the dispute with the federal government and said, “As a worker, you have no right to dictate to your employers how to collect wages.” The ASUU began the strike on 9 March 2020 following a disagreement with the federal government over the integrated salary and personnel information system and other issues related to the financing of higher education. The university staff union on Monday declared an indefinite strike due to the integrated information system on staff and pay slips and the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement. According to him, “our strike action, based on the willingness of governments to honor their MOA with us, continues, even though universities are open today. It is our responsibility to draw the attention of governments to their duties to the nation and its citizens; That`s what we did and there`s no going back.” He said: “It is regrettable that the government has refused to assume its own responsibilities, to take advantage of the period of the Covid 19 pandemic to meet its demands. The union`s management had previously claimed that it had five major problems that led to the withdrawal of its services a few months ago, but the main concern is the implementation of the University Transparency Account System (UTAS) for the management of its members` human resources.
A few days ago, non-academics came out to express their dissatisfaction with the introduction of the IPPIS and threaten to strike, didn`t that justify the opposition of your union? He said: “After our last meeting with government officials, we agreed together that I should go back to my people to keep them informed of the resolutions. I have been doing this since the last meeting with the government. The report also noted that ASUU was expected to notify the agreement to its organs and then communicate its decision to the government, after which a date for cancelling the strike would be announced. Senate President Ahmad Lawan, who met in Abuja on Monday with delegations from the academic union led by their president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, noted that the meeting should allow the National Assembly to intervene in the matter and end the ongoing strike. “From the beginning, it was unwise to have used the IPPIS in universities. All distortions and disruptions reported over the past six months in the university accounts of federal universities, even those that initially hosted the IPPIS with open arms, were predicted by the ASUU. Unlike IPPIS, UTAS is a web-based ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) application that is used efficiently, transparently and responsibly for the overall management of university resources. It was designed to work according to the concept of Software as a Service (SaaS), where universities maintain subdomains as tenants….
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