The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has said it will sanction members who enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), despite its boycott order.
Some ASUU members had begun registering on the payroll platform last week against the union’s directive to shun the scheme.
Following the development, ASUU’s administrative body across Nigerian universities has vowed that the union will punish academic staff in seven universities, who were found culpable.
This Day reports that Abubakar Sabo Yabo, chairman of ASUU at the Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto, said only six of its members registered on the platform out of 1200, as the boycott recorded an overall compliance rate of 90 per cent.
Yabo added that the six erring members will appear before the ethics and disciplinary committee of the institution to face possible sanctions.
Universities where ASUU members shunned the directive of the body not to enrol include: University of Benin (UNIBEN); Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife; Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State; and University of Nsukka, Nsukka.
Christian Opata, ASUU chairman at the UNN, said the institution is waiting for the union’s national leadership for directives on the sanctions to be meted out to 13 of its lecturers who enrolled in IPPIS.
“We are waiting for the national leadership to give directives on what to do to our members who decided to enroll. It is not in the power of the branch chairman to sanction them. But the fact remains that they shall be sanctioned,” he was quoted to have said.
Jamilu Shehu, the zonal ASUU chairman, said only two academic staff enrolled at the Federal University, Dutsinma, Katsina.
He added that ASUU would collate the names of those who enrolled and decide the next line of action.
ASUU has accused the government of designing the IPPS to suppress them, in the guise of anti-corruption.
Though the enrollment scheme ended on December 7, reports say there are indications that the federal government will extend it.
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