The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU met with the President of the Senate, ,Ahmed Lawan, on Monday to seek the intervention of the National Assembly for accepting its alternative payroll system, known as University Transparency and Accountability Solution?UTAS).
UTAS is the alternative to the federally adopted Integrated Payroll and Information System IPPIS)(.
The Union said that apart from being a customized payroll platform which synchronized with the peculiarities of its membership earning styly,,it promotes a part of the responsibilities of Nigerian Universities in the area of providing digital solutions to national challenges under its mandate as a research institution.
ASUU President, Processor Biodun Ogunyemi ,who presented the University’s alternative payroll system to Senator Ahmed also demonstrated the application said there is no going back on UTAS and said that its demands hold the future for quality University Education in the country.
Ogunyemi had told reporters that ,UTAS is the Union’s way of showing that they are inventors and creators of software and are not inferior to their colleagues in other parts of the world.
In his remarks, Lawan expressed concern over the federal government’s inability to implement an arrangement it entered and advised the Union to compromise on her demands for progress to be made.
The Senate President said the situation calls for give and take by both ASUU and the federal government in view of the economic downturn and in view of the effect of ASUU’s crisis on students and expressed the National Assembly’s determination to resolve the issues.
The Federal Government had a few months ago agreed on working on ASUU’s proposed alternative payroll system.
However President Buhari recently urged all institutions to enroll in the IPPIS warning that any institution that failed will not get salaries of members in the 2021 fiscal year.
