ASUU attacks FG over move to forcefully enrol lecturers on IPPIS

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Ibadan chapter, has described the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government as dictatorial.

ASSU made the remark in response to an advertorial by the federal government directing all staff of federal universities and colleges of education "to present themselves for enrolment for the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System," IPPIS.

The Chairman of ASUU in UI, Professor Deji Omole said the union cannot be harassed or intimidated by Buhari’s government which has a penchant for breaking the law.

He said: "The government pronouncements to forcefully enrol university workers is an act of violence against the university system.

"It is worrisome for a government under democratic dispensation to resort to force rather than dialogue. If not why is the government afraid of negotiations.

"We are not perturbed by the directive. A government claiming to be fighting corruption should not break the law.

"The university Autonomy Act is very clear on university administrators. There is no greater corruption than those breaking the law of the land.

"Breaking of existing laws with impunity is the greatest corruption anywhere in the world. We refuse to be harassed or intimidated. We are not strangers in this country. We are veritable stakeholders. We cannot be harassed. We have told them what to do.

"Let the government come back to the negotiation’s table and let us discuss the grey areas. Forceful enlistment will not solve the problem.

"We are not disturbed but we are worried, the government is getting dictatorial. A supposedly democratic government is getting dictatorial.”