UniAbuja ASUU cries out: Our January salary not fully paid

Amidst threats by ASUU to embark on nationwide strike if the federal government goes ahead to deny salary payments to members who did not enroll in the last Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) exercise, the University of Abuja branch of ASUU, claimed that their members were not paid 100 percent salary for the month of January.

 Chairman of the branch, Dr Kasim Umar confirmed this to newsmen Monday, at their secretariat in Abuja.

The branch chairman stated that even though the workers in the university had received their January salaries, it was paid in percentages.

“The earlier threat of government not to pay salaries of academic staff in the universities, the situation as it is, University of Abuja have been paid but in percentages, that is 91.7 percent was paid which is unacceptable to us. We have been collecting our salaries 100 percent before now, but general salary, it was 91.7 percent which means it was not paid in hundred percent and the reason is not known to us because we are neither invited nor informed prior to the decision, except that our members received that amount despite the fact that we worked in full.

“The salaries started coming Friday, but I’m worried because we have not been paid on percentages for a long period of time and I don’t want to believe that we have a new vice chancellor that is going to pull off to the issue of percentage salary,” he said.

Umar further stated that, “as a union, someone that has worked fully, will expect to be paid 100 percent and that’s what I said that collectively, the congress will meet and take a decision.”

Kasim further added that due process will be followed and that decision on whether to embark on strike should federal government refused to pay them their subsequent salaries will be taken also

 “The issue of IPPIS from the government side came in as a result of diversion from the main issue which is the MOA agreement signed and agreed by the two parties over almost a year now.”

 On the issue of the suspension of 2019/2020 admission exercise into UNIABUJA by JAMB, Kasim said the union has discovered some shortcomings in the screening process and has raised its observations and transmitted it to the vice chancellor for immediate action.

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