Federal Government is set to modify the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System, IPPIS to accommodate the Universities Peculiar Personnel Payroll System (UP3S) and the University Transparency Accountability System (UTAS).
According to Punch, UTAS is a payroll system developed by the Academic Staff Union of Universities for the payment of salaries and allowances of University lecturers while the UP3S was developed by the The Joint Action Committee of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities.
The development formed part of discussions held at the meeting between the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, and ASUU’s executive on Monday.
PUNCH reports that the issues surrounding the deployment of UTAS and UP3S formed part of the reasons why the lecturers and non-academic staff downed tools.
The university workers had blamed inconsistencies and the failure of the IPPIS to capture the peculiarities of the university system for their rejection.
A source who spoke to newsmen on conditions of anonymity said that “The lecturers were told that the IPPIS will be modified to accommodate the peculiarities of UTAS. It will be too expensive to run two payment platforms concurrently.”
Members of the National Executive Council of ASUU will meet on Thursday to take a formal stance on the eight-month-old strike.