Reps to address non-implementation of presidential directive to remove varsities from IPPIS

The House of Representatives has vowed to take necessary steps to address the challenge arising from the non-implementation of presidential directives to remove universities and other tertiary institutions from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on University Education, Abubakar Fulata, made this known when the committee met with the conference of vice chancellors in Abuja on Wednesday.
Mr Fulata said that the committee was determined to tackle any issue that would affect the smooth running of the universities across the country.
He noted that President Bola Tinubu had listened to them and approved the removal of universities and other tertiary institutions from IPPIS.
He said that the President also reconstituted the councils and boards for higher institutions as well as recent approval of 50 per cent subsidy on electricity tariff for hospitals and tertiary institutions.
Mr Fulata said that he was optimistic that the issue of non-implementation of the President’s directive on IPPIS would be addressed.
He noted that it took the vice chancellor of a university to go through about seven MDAs under the IPPIS platform before even a cleaner could be employed.
The VC University of Benin, Prof Lilian Salami, said that in spite of the presidential directive to remove universities and other tertiary institutions from IPPIS, they still relied on the platform for recruitment, salary payments and other things.
On July 12, the Federal Executive Council directed that the nation’s university system be expeditiously removed from the IPPIS platform.
The announcement followed the federal government’s prior approval of the initiative.
The new directive reportedly formed part of resolutions reached at the council meeting conducted by President Tinubu at the Presidential Villa.
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