The Calabar Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), yesterday declared that arbitrariness, impunity abuse of power and privileges, are some of the factors that led to the violation of laws on the financial management in Nigerian universities.
Coordinator of ASUU in the zone, Dr. Aniekan Brown, alongside seven others from institutions within the zone made the assertion in a statement yesterday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
“The autocratic and thoughtless postponement of the 51st Convocation ceremony of the University of Lagos by its Pro-Chancellor, which has resulted in wastage of scare resources, offers an example of the trend.
“ASUU strongly appeals to the Federal Government to investigate the circumstances surrounding reckless use of power and punish those culpable accordingly in the interest of the nation and its education sector,” he said.
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On Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS), he noted that ASUU had repeatedly pointed to the Federal Government that the template for IPPIS, as it is, was not in tandem with the peculiarities of the nation’s universities.
Accompanied by the chairmen of the seven universities making up the Calabar Zone, Brown explained that ASUU had produced an alternative template, called the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) that would be free of fraud and corruption.
“If there is any fight the union has engaged itself over the decades, it is the fight against corruption. But the point is coming with a smokescreen that they are fighting corruption when the idea is corruption compliant and it behooves us to say it is wrong.
“Issues of fraud must be dealt with, but when you fly an anti-corruption kite this way and at the same time taking corruption to the worst level where people have never been processed through appointment procedure and then their names just appear, how will you deal with personnel management within the university system?
“That is why we want to crave the indulgence of Nigerians to understand the perspective from which the union is taking this fight,” he added.
Source: Guardian Nigeria
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