By Precious Oham
Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics, SSANIP, Federal Polytechnic Ado-Ekiti chapter has called on President Bola Tinubu to scrap the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS citing irregularities, incompetence, corruption and fraud.
Chairman of SSANIP in the institution, Comrade Sunday Akomolafe made the call while addressing journalists during a peaceful protest by members of the union at the Polytechnic premises.
According to him, the scheme has become a conduit pipe used by some senior personalities to steal government fund and salaries of workers urging government to probe the organization.
He alleged that the Polytechnic workers have suffered untold hardship due to irregularities in the payments of their salaries, non-remittance of their various deductions by IPPIS despite government’s approval.
Akomolafe alleged that the arrears of minimum wage approved for them by government since 2009 has not been paid by the scheme.
He called on President Tinubu to address the issues holistically by probing the activities of IPPIS and carry out a cursory investigation and bring culprits to book.
“Let it be known today that arrears of minimum wage was payed last year. Up till today 80% of our members have not received that arrears. Let the FG investigate where that money has gone to.
“Last month our salaries were payed, double salaries were payed into workers account and IPPIS retrieved even the ones that didn’t belong to them. 80% of our workers in this Polytechnic have nothing to feed on now.
“That is the salt upon the injury being inflicted as the result of removal of fuel subsidy. We are saying today that IPPIS is a scam.
“We are calling on President Bola Tinubu to Probe into the activities of IPPIS. The remaining of our minimum wage arrears should be paid to us now. All the medical workers, nurses, doctors, matron working in the health centres have not received arrears of minimum wage. What is the offence for saving people?
“We are begging the FG because since 2009 our minimum wage has not being paid. There must be justice and fairness. We are asking the FG led by President Bola Tinubu to take a cursory holistic investigation into the activities of IPPIS which is a conduit pipe with which our resources is being siphoned.
“I know that IPPIS is having a microfinance bank where they borrow people money. They are using our money to get interest from others. Let it be on record is taking place nationwide and if FG doesn’t do the needful we will take a more drastic measure.”
Some of the protesting workers held placards with the inscription “IPPIS release our witheld salaries, IPPIS release our minimum wage arrears now, our salary is our right, IPPIS na thief, IPPIS is a fraud, save public servants from IPPIS.”