The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has berated the federal government over series of what it described as lies and half-truths regarding the lingering strike by the union occasioned by non-implementation of 2009 FG-ASUU agreement.
The Union accused the federal government of claiming to have reached an agreement with it on virtually all the issues that necessitated the strike embarked upon since February.
2. FG vs ASUU: UTAS isn’t a solution yet – Ngige
The federal government has hinted that the preferred payment solution put forward by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be inadequate resolve to the lingering impasse between them.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, disclosed this while speaking to State House Correspondents about the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), proposed by ASUU, in place of the Integrated Payroll and Personal Information System (IPPIS) floated by government.
According to the Minister, ASUU, which members had been on a nationwide strike for months over the disagreement with government on the implementation of the IPPIS, said even if government decides to buy the lecturers’ proposal of UTAS, the platform is yet to be fitted with the required hardware for its implementation, a component he said the union does not have the money to purchase for now.
He said though the government had forwarded the UTAS software to the Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) for integrity test, it did not make any budgetary provision for the procurement of the UTAS hardware.
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