IPPIS: ASUU accuses government of illegally accessing members BVN details

Ogunyemi has disclosed that the government asked for his members’ bank account numbers to allow for the payment of February and March 2020 salaries that were withheld, the BVNs were not submitted and expressed sadness that the government went behind to access the BVNs.

What the government did was not only illegal but criminal. When they seized our February and March 2020 salaries and after a series of meetings, they agreed to pay us, they only requested our account numbers.

We were surprised that they went ahead to harvest our BVN details. This is uncalled for. We are going to take them up on that. They are just being clever by half. They think they can enrol us in the IPPIS through the backdoor.

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He further stated; We have not changed our position on IPPIS. It is not good for the university system and cannot work. It lacks the flexibility to be deployed in the university system. Look at how they are mutilating salaries of workers and coming up with cock and bull story of tax deductions and others. As we speak now, some of our members are yet to get their February and March salaries.

On whether ASUU will call off its ongoing strike if schools are reopened soon, Ogunyemi said it depends on the government meeting the union’s demands.

The ASUU boss urged the government to see the education sector as critical to the development of the country and accord it the needed priority.