This is Why Universities workers were short-paid, IPPIS Director

It’s no longer a news that University, polytechnics and colleges of education were paid on Thursday-Friday last week. In what is happened to be the first payment using IPPIS but the payment was mared with tons of irregularities, Short-paid, no cooperative deductions among all others.

After speaking with the Director, IPPIS, on the crisis that has engulfed the payment of our salaries so far, he apologised for this and also pleaded that we should appeal to our members. 

He said, the intention was to pay the salary of February, 2020 to test run the platform. They didn’t want to risk the full implementation from the first month because of the enormous amount of documents and information that had been processed by very few personnel within a short period,therefore, decided to pushed out the basic and major parts.

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He said over ninety thousands nominal roll and payroll of Staff of all Tertiary Institutions were processed.

This will give them solid background and be prepared to go full blast this month. 

He promised that proof sheets of February payment will made available to the Bursars early this week for necessary correction, updating or other inputs omitted especially those who were promoted and could not be not paid.The designated Bursary Staff will be trained to handle and continuing further processing of the payroll. 

He,therefore, solicits for support and cooperation of the Bursars in ensuring hitch free exercise.

He assured us that all consequential arrears will be paid. 

He said all complaints should be directed to the Bursary Department of each University but we should wait for the payslips,which he believes will be made available by Tuesday this week, further, he said that about twelve thousands staff salaries were returned unpaid,maybe either due wrong account numbers or the names submitted do not tally with that of the banks.

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