The Federal Government said the University Transparency and Accountability Solution request by the Academic Staff Union Universities, is yet to be approved.
Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, disclosed this yesterday while during an interview on Channels TV.
UTAS payment platform is one of the requests of the striking University members of ASUU.
Punch Metro reported that ASUU had demanded that its members be exited from the IPPIS payment platform to UTAS provided by the union.
Adamu said the decision on whether or not to approve the payment platform is in the hands of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
“The President is actually waiting for the report of the technical committee on the three payment platforms. I have seen one of the reports but I have not seen the final one. From what I have seen, the U3PS is probably the best, followed by UTAS and IPPIS,” he said.
According to him, the increment in salaries of university lecturers and other tertiary institutions like Polytechnics and Colleges of Education would not begin immediately, saying it will commence in January next year.
Speaking on the ‘no work no pay policy’, Adamu said that the federal government is not ready to change its decision.
“I don’t think the government would rescind. It is not only payment of salary that should motivate them to go back. There are many things that can motivate them to go back to classroom,” he said.
