The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has decided to extend its ongoing strike.
The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja on Monday morning, August 29.
ASUU declared the commencement of a strike on Monday, February 14, 2022, at the University of Lagos.
It is also demanding that government should shelve the payment of members’ salaries using its Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) through which it pays its employees.
ASUU is asking the government to instead adopt the union’s payment platform option, the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Ben Goong, told newsmen that the government had taken all possible steps to end the strike.
Goong said;
Government has already inaugurated a committee to harmonise the IPPIS, UTAS, and UP3, a salary payment platform introduced by another union within the university system.
This will ensure that the government will pay with only one payment platform that will harmonise all the technical peculiarities.
If you bring some demands and almost 80 per cent have been attended to, there is no need to drag the strike anymore.
It is unreasonable for the strike to be lingering seeing that the government has worked toward meeting most of the demands.
