Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has finally revealed his on the Academic Staff Union of Universities Strike and the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System platform.
President Muhammadu Buhari says only workers captured on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System platform will be paid salaries.
He said this during the presentation of the proposed 2021 Budget of N13 trillion to the National Assembly on Thursday.
Before presenting the proposed budget, Buhari gave a breakdown of the performance of the 2020 budget.
He explained that the decision not to pay federal workers not captured on the IPPIS was to reduce personnel cost.
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This is coming amidst the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities over IPPIS and other matters.
He said, “Personnel cost is still our largest single item of expenditure. In the 7 months to 31st July 2020, it accounted for 34 percent of total Federal Government spending and is projected at 33 percent of 2021 expenditure.
To check the incidence of payments to non-existent personnel and unauthorised allowances, only Federal staff that have been captured on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (‘IPPIS’) platform will receive salaries.
“All agencies have been directed to ensure that they obtain all necessary approvals before embarking on any fresh recruitment. Any breach of these directives will be severely sanctioned.”
AUTHENTIC Rports that members of ASUU had embarked on an indefinite strike on March 23 over alleged shortcomings of IPPIS and failure of the Federal Government to honour its 2019 agreement.
