The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has threatened to join their academic colleagues in the nationwide industrial action which started one week ago.
Naija News understands that the group made the threat due to alleged irregularities observed in the payment of February salaries to its members by the federal government via the use of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
NASU, which comprises junior workers across the nation’s universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and monotechnics, among others, said its earlier support for the payment system was based on the government’s promises to take into consideration the peculiarities of the workers. 
The union has, therefore, sought an audience with the office of the director in charge of the IPPIS in the office of the accountant general of the federation, for an amicable settlement.
In a letter addressed to the IPPIS director, a copy of which was made available to PREMIUM TIMES, the union said its leadership would like to meet the director on March 25 by 12 noon to address the differences.
The letter, which was signed by the union’s general secretary, Peter Adeyemi, with copies sent to the education minister, Adamu Adamu; his labour counterpart, Chris Ngige, among others, noted that failure to address the issues raised urgently would lead to the withdrawal of services across campuses nationwide.
The letter reads in part; “The purpose of the audience is in connection with the payment of February 20202 salary to NASU members in the federal universities and inter-university centres, federal polytechnics and federal colleges of education on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
“We wish to express our disappointment over the haphazard payment of the February 2020 salaries to our members. In fact, the abysmal implementation of IPPIS in the above named institutions has brought untold hardship to our members.“We observed with shock that in an attempt to save money for the federal government, your office decided to shortchange our members by the haphazard nature of the implementation. This no doubt has made our union a laughing stock and subject of mockery and ridicule by those who opposed IPPIS implementation ab-initio.”
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