The Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila has invited the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Chris Ngige; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Accountant General of the Federation, Director General, Salaries, Income and Wages’ Commission, the Director General, Budget Office, among others to appear before the lawmakers next week Thursday.
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The Speaker disclosed this yesterday, at the resumed fact-finding meeting on strike embarked upon by ASUU.
The Director General of National Information Development Agency (NITDA) and his counterpart in National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission and Budget Office are also expected at the meeting.
The lawmakers recently met with ASUU and the Minister of State for Education, with a view to resolve the ongoing strike.
The Director of Information Infrastructure at NITDA, Dr. Usman Abdulahi revealed that the University Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS) also failed the integrity on three occasions, while IPPIS failed the only test it was subjected to.
“In the first test, the system UTAS failed. The system could not meet the requirement of NITDA’s criteria of assessing network,” he said.
Abdulahi further said, “It was communicated to ASUU, a full report was submitted directly to ASUU. The second report was submitted through the office of the Minister. ASUU went back, did the review that NITDA recommended.
“In the assessment, we did in March this year, we spent two weeks carrying out the assessment in the presence of observers.
“At the end of the exercise, UTAS failed the due diligence test. Of course, ASUU agreed to work on the solution and resubmit for assessment,’’ he said.
Not satisfied with the explanation, Gbajabiamila asked if NITDA advised the government to take action on the lapses found on IPPIS, which has been in operation by government since 2011. But the NITDA official said they were not in a position to do that.
Gbajabiamila also asked if NITDA queried IPPIS platform, to which the official responded in the negative.
The Deputy Speaker Wase also expressed reservations at NITDA’s action, saying it ought to have advised government on the appropriate action to take in view of its discovery on IPPIS.
Furthermore, the Head of Service, Mrs. Folashade Esan, said IPPIS is not just a payment platform, but also a human resources platform.
She noted that the only reason the system failed the platform was because NITDA only tested the payment component without the human resources component.
The acting Accountant General of the Federation, Mr Okolieaboh Sylva, said if UTAS is better than IPPIS, government would copy some things from UTAS to IPPIS.
He, added that though government was interested in local content, it would not hand over its payroll system to any university.
After hours of deliberations, the Speaker suggested that a further follow-up meeting with ASUU officials be held on Thursday next week, which the stakeholders subscribed to. The meeting was, therefore, adjourned to Thursday next week.
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