IPPIS: FG ‘LL LOOK INTO SSANU, NASU UGPPPS – NGIGE
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, this weekend, said that the Federal Government will look at the payment platform, University General Peculiar Payroll Payment System, UGPPPS, designed by the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU. SSANU and NASU in the wake of the controversy designed their platform as an alternative to the IPPIS.
Speaking when he received the immediate past President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke, and his successor, Comrade Mohammed Haruna Ibrahim in his office in Abuja, Senator Chris Ngige assured them that the Federal Government will look at UGPPPS as demanded by SSANU.
The Minister in a statement issued by his Media Office pointed out that any of such systems must have a “handshake with IPPIS and another payment system in use by the Federal Government” as having such technology work in silos is being discouraged even globally.
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The Immediate Comrade Ugwoke, who was on a thank-you visit and presentation of his successor, Mohammed Ibrahim, said, “We are here to present the new President of SSANU and ask that you extend the patriotism, friendship, and understanding which I enjoyed to my successor.
“Your understanding of various challenges facing Nigerian workers operating under different unions, the patience and transparency with which you mediate, reawaken hope in us that government is committed to the welfare of workers.
“ Your Excellency, I must say that a different approach in the face of decade-long problems facing the nation’s workforce would have been counterproductive and am afraid, may have resulted in conflicts too diverse and complex to manage. So we plead you to keep it up. ”
On the controversial IPPS payment platform, he informed the Minister of SSANU’s alternative, the University General Peculiar Payroll Payment System( UGPPPS) which it developed in conjunction with the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU).
He however said the union would reconsider its position if IPPIS would be updated to accommodate the peculiarities captured by UGPPPS.
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