The Academic Staff Union of Universities has described the directive stopping the salaries of university employees, who have not enrolled on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System , as blackmail to weaken workers and make them enroll on the platform .
The Chairman of the University of Port Harcourt Branch of ASUU
, Dr Austen Sado, who spoke on Sunday , explained that though some of his colleagues had not been paid salaries since February , the union would not be cowed into enrolling on IPPIS .
Sado, who spoke on the telephone , said , “ It ( directive to stop salaries) clearly shows that there is something the Federal
Government is not telling the people . They are not paying us ( some lecturers) . So , why are they saying by November?
“ What they are doing now is just blackmail and threat to see how they would weaken our members to go and enroll ( on IPPIS ) . People who have not enrolled are not being paid ; some people for eight months , some for three , going to four months . I have not been paid salary since July , while some people have not been paid since February .
“ They have not paid us because of IPPIS . A few of the people that registered with IPPIS are being paid. But when they pay them , they don’ t even get the full complement of their salaries; some of them claim that they get like N 50, 000, N 60, 000, and we are talking about senior lecturers and above.
“ A professor told me that what he is getting is N 100, 000 ( as monthly salary) and yet they want to put more people into that.
But we have resolved that we will not succumb to this blackmail. ”
