ASUU Praises FG As FEC Excludes Varsities, Others From IPPIS

The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Bola Tinubu has sanctioned the removal of employees from all public universities and other tertiary institutions from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).

The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, revealed this information while speaking to journalists at the outcome of this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja.

Mamman said, “Today, the council directed that universities, polytechnics and colleges of education should be taken out of the IPPIS service to allow for efficiency in the management of the universities and tertiary institutions, generally speaking.

“Also, before now, when the tertiary institutions wanted to make recruitment, they ran to the office of the Head of Service for waiver and approval.

“Today, the council, through the directive of the President, has exempted them from that.”

Explaining the rationale for the decision, the education minister said, “Simply, the President and the council are just concerned about the efficiency of management of the universities, and so it has nothing to do with integrity or platform options.

But ASUP urged President Bola Tinubu’s led administration to explain the reason for the decision.

The union’s President, Dr. Anderson Ezeibe who spoke to our correspondent on Wednesday, said, “We are still studying the situation we need to know what has led to this. We need to know the plans they have. We don’t know whether they want institutions to be self-funding. We don’t want to be caught unaware. We need the policy documents. We need to know their plans. Until we see that we can’t give any reaction.

“Remember that was how the announcement for the removal of fuel subsidy came on and people were happy until it became another thing so we want them to explain fully before we can know whether we will be happy or not.”