IPPIS will accommodate lecturers genuine concerns – FG

he Federal Government has assured university lecturers that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) will accommodate and efficiently address all their genuine concerns and peculiarities.

A statement from the Office Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF), said the AGF Mr. Ahmed Idris, gave the assurance when the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities visited him in Abuja.

The Accountant General of the Federation, while responding to concerns raised by the Vice Chancellors on the recent enrolment of university staff into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), assured that ‘all rules and peculiarities in the universities that are recognized by the government will be accommodated and implemented through IPPIS’.

He directed the University Vice Chancellors to get their lecturers to state all the peculiarities rules of engagement equally; we are ready to go by the rules of engagement. All the rules that are recognized by the government in the universities, we will go by these rules, none will be set aside’, he said.

Idris said the objection by the academic staff of the universities to the IPPIS is unfounded as the Federal Government has, during many meetings with the universities, assured them that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) was not to take away the autonomy of the universities, but to make the management of personnel more efficient.

He stated that the practice where universities recruited staff not minding whether their budget would accommodate such employment was responsible for the issue of shortfall in personnel revenue.

He explained that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) would help the universities solve the problem of shortfall in personnel revenue as the recruitment and remuneration of staff would be more efficient.