We’re ready to test our salary payment platform

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has told the Federal Government that the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), which it developed as an alternative to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), was ready for integrity tests.

According to Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, the National President of the union, UTAS was demonstrated on Monday to the Minister of Education and senior management staff of the Ministry of Education, including the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Abdulrasheed Abubakar.

He spoke at a press conference at the Gwagwalada campus of the University of Abuja. However, he said that ASUU would not suspend its ongoing strike until the Federal Government honoured its 2019 agreements.

“It is our sincere hope that government would not renege on its promise because the benefits of UTAS to the university system (both public and private) cannot be found in any other software in Nigeria today.”

He said,

“We had always promised that the union would produce a robust software solution that would be sensitive to the uniqueness of the university system in addressing personnel information and payroll system, among other things.

ASUU had given a timeframe of 18 months to government to develop, test and deploy UTAS. In keeping with this promise, ASUU is pleased to announce that UTAS is now ready for the “integrity tests” required of it by government…”