ASUU Chair Faults Reconstitution, Composition Of New Governing Councils 

… Says IPPIS Is A Scam, Want It Removed 

… Describes Retired Politicians As Unfit To Be Appointed Into Governing Councils

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By Joseph Sunday 

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Professor Pius Bamidele Mogaji has faulted the reconstitution and the composition of the new governing councils of the Federal Institutions in Nigeria, calling on the Federal Government to reverse the decision by honoring the demands of ASUU, removed the IPPIS with no further delay, describing it a scam. 

The University Lecturer and Unionist, Professor Mogaji dropped the message while fielding questions from Treasure Newspaper over the phone on Monday.

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Professor Mogaji in his response to a request for an update by Treasure Newspaper clarify that ASUU is yet to issue any ultimatum or information as regards strike, thereby calling on those sections of the media not to mislead the public on the position of ASUU.

In a further response, Professor Mogaji stated that the directive given to them as at the last NEC meeting held on the 8th of June at their National Headquarters in Abuja was that they should go back and mobilize and sensitise members and organize a town hall meeting with the market women to intimate them on what is going on, and interact with the students as a major stakeholder in the struggle

The FUTA ASUU Chairman however used the opportunity to refresh the minds of the public on their demands which include the failure of the Federal Government to honour the 2009 Federal Government/ASUU agreement which has been due for renegotiation as at 2012; the Revitalisation of Public Universities; the payment of their promotion arrears and Payment of our statutory allowances and withheld salaries.

Other agreements are the Payments of 

Earned Academic Allowance, EAA;

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academic allowances that has already been captured into the 2023 budget but up till now, government is not doing anything as regards the payment; the unconditional and illegal dissolution of Governing Councils after they kicked against it.  

Professor Mogaji berated the Federal Government’s decision to continue to ignore ASUU demands which had earlier called for the reinstatements of the Governing Councils who are yet to complete their tenure.

Hammering on the need for the Federal government to remove the University Academics from the IPPIS platform, Mogaji clearly revealed that the IPPIS is a scam that will not be allowed to work in the University system because of its  peculiarities. 

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Also, Mogaji described the recent appointments into the Governing Councils of the Federal Institutions as a misfit, re-emancipation and re-introduction of retired politicians. 

Citing an example, Professor Mogaji faulted the appointment of many old and retired politicians into the Governing Councils of Federal Institutions in the Country. 

He went further to query what the old and retired politicians were going there to do? 

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According to Professor Mogaji, he said, instead of the old and the retired politicians, “we need somebody that has worked in the University. Retired Professors who knows what it entails to run the University System. These are the sets of the people that the ASUU needed in the University System”, he submitted. 

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