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IPPIS is a foreign platform, says ASUU

 The Academic Staff Union of Universities has has rejected the new payment method introduced by the federal government which is meant to be their new payment system as a foreign platform

The Chairman of ASUU, University of Port Harcourt branch, Dr Austen Sado, also said it was unthinkable that the personnel data of Nigeria’s workforce was already in the hands of another country.


Speaking in an interview with The PUNCH, Sado explained that rather than embrace the IPPIS, the Federal Government should consider using the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, which he described as an indigenous platform.

He pointed out that the union had been waiting for the Federal Government to invite it for a demonstration of the proposed payroll platform, adding that the government was not showing any interest in the UTAS.

Sado disagreed with the claim that the IPPIS was introduced into the university system with a view to fighting corruption.

He said, “The IPPIS is not hosted in Nigeria; it’s a foreign platform; so, for you to now harvest the data of your entire workforce and keep it in a foreign country is quite questionable; we don’t understand what the objectives are and it portends great danger for this nation.

“It’s unthinkable that a government will harvest the data and the personnel information of the entire workforce in a country and hand it over to another country. Honestly speaking, it’s unimaginable and we do not know what the objectives are.

“Unfortunately, people do not understand what it means to have the data of your workforce hosted by a foreign country. The IPPIS is a foreign creation; it is domiciled overseas; it’s not a Nigerian product.

Source:punch

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