The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that its members are prepared to return to classrooms if the government plays its roll well by conducting an integrity test on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS).
Well, ASUU created the payment platform, UTAS, as a direct replacement for the rejected Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) created by the government.
And in an interview with The Punch, Biodun Ogunyemi, the ASUU President, disclosed that what is holding the union from calling off the 7-month long strike is due to the fact that the government is yet to give clearance to National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to conduct integrity test on UTAS.
Additionally, he said that the government has accepted the UTAS in principle, adding that the government directed the union to go for test, a process which they have already began.
The union president, also made it known that the union had presented UTAS at 3 levels, beginning with the Ministry of Education, Senate President and members of his team, officials of Ministry of Finance and Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, where all other stakeholders were present, including NITDA, stating that all stakeholders have observed the presentation and the next stage of integrity test is what the union is moving in to.
Speaking further, he revealed that it isn't something that ought to be drag for too long if the government facilitates it.
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