The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Federal Government of deliberately frustrating the effective implementation of the newly introduced Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS), which replaced the previously controversial Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

The union alleged that the government is employing various tactics to ensure that the new platform does not favour university workers, particularly lecturers, as a form of punishment for rejecting IPPIS.

ASUU National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this claim over the weekend in an exclusive interview with the Nigerian Tribune when asked for an update on the N50 billion recently released by the Federal Government to settle arrears of earned allowances owed to university staff.

Osodeke lamented that two weeks after the government publicly announced the release of the funds, neither academic nor non-academic staff had received their allowances. He further revealed that many ASUU members had not yet received their April salaries.

“Many of us lecturers have not received our April salaries as we speak, and the issue is nothing other than a ploy to blackmail our members for rejecting IPPIS and to compel us to return to that platform,” he said.

He disclosed that workers who remain on the IPPIS platform had received their April salaries as early as the first week of May, while those who migrated to the new GIFMIS platform were yet to be paid.

“The government’s action is a deliberate attempt to blackmail us for leaving the IPPIS platform. They want to create the impression that we would have been paid by now had we remained under IPPIS.

“But we are only being patient. If the situation remains unresolved by next month, we will escalate the issue,” Osodeke warned.

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