The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Ahmed Idris to deal with corruption issues in his office rather describing the Union has endorsing corruption.
This was disclosed by the Chairman University of Ibadan Chapter of ASUU, Professor Deji Omole while addressing the Congress of the Union, on Wednesday.
He stated that the “association will never support corrupt practices but will not allow the federal government to extort her members and make them vulnerable to corruption.”
The Union said, “corruption and corrupt practices have become more dreadful under the Muhammadu Buhari administration as those implementing the policies extort and profit from it.”
The union then condemned the Accountant General for describing the “opposition of the Union against Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) being planned by the federal government as an endorsement of corruption.”
ASUU challenged the Accountant General to name the “specific ministries where the IPPIS has saved Federal Government N273billion as claimed and how many persons have been prosecuted to show the government is serious about fighting corruption.”
Despite signing different Memorandum of Action with the Union in 2017 and 2019 to create separate interest yielding accounts for University endowment funds, grants and other funds, the ASUU boss stated that the Federal Government has done nothing to that effect thereby making universities vulnerable.
According to him, “Autonomy of the University is a legal issue and the federal government will not be allowed to trample upon it. The issues here is very clear as the forceful movement of university workers is an act of illegality and ASUU as a responsible union will not fold its arms and allow the law to broken by a mere pronouncement.”
