By Cajetan Mmuta
Academic Staff Union of Universities Owerri zone has threatened to embark on another strike action over the federal government’s reneged agreement on the memorandum of Action signed with the union in December 2020
Cordinator of ASUU of the zone, Comrade Uzo Onyedinamma who disclosed this during a press conference held in Awka the Ananbra state capital explained that the federal government breached most of the timelines on the Memorandum of Action (MOA).
According to ASUU Owerri Zone, the MOA specified that the federal government is to pay thirty billion naira by end of January this year as part of one trench of the two hundred and twenty billion nairas that was to be paid to Universities had not been paid.
Comrade Onyedinamma stated that the union had developed the university Transparency and Accountability Solution UTAS as a viable alternative to the integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System IPPIS which he said did not meet the peculiarity of the university system.
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The union while describing as untrue the claim by the government that IPPIS addresses the wide corruption in the financial management of Universities, called for the release of the white paper and the report of the visitation panels as well as to reconstitute the governing councils of the three Universities of Agriculture at Abeokuta, Makurdi, and Umudike respectively.
The University teachers appealed to the federal government to avoid the virtuous circle of “no work no pay and no pay no work” which they noted do no one any good.
The leadership of ASUU Owerri Zone is made up of branches from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Imo State University, Federal University of Agriculture Umudike, Federal University of Technology Owerri, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Igbariam among others
