Some university lectures are being owed 15 months’ salaries, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said.
ASUU President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi said this on Sunday.
He said the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation’s (OAGF) refusal to pay his colleagues amounted to a violation of the Memorandum of Action (MoA) ASUU signed with the government last December before it called off its nine-month strike.
“Denying workers their salaries is a punishment and it violates all known trade union laws that we know. If people can be denied their salaries for 15 to 16 months because they don’t want to succumb to the pressure (of registering on IPPIS), our union will consider the best way to handle them after taking everything to all the appropriate levels,” Ogunyemi said.
“What the consultant to IPPIS has been doing is to instigate the Accountant-General’s office to threaten our members that they will not be paid if they don’t register on IPPIS. Those of our members who made inquiries and went as far as the Office of the Accountant- General of
the Federation told them point-blank that they will not be paid unless they register on IPPIS.
“We are collating information on that and we are prepared to take it to the highest level in the land before we consider what is to be done about what the AGF and the consultant on IPPIS are doing to our members.”