The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has said the alleged N80bn fraud in the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation has vindicated its dissapproval to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
The union insisted on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution as its preferred payment platform.
This was disclosed in statement by the COEASU President, Dr Smart Olugbeko on Thursday, 26th May, 2022 while reacting to the N80bn fraud allegedly perpetrated by the AGF, Idris Ahmed, who is currently in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s custody, he observed that many of the union members had complained about the illegal deductions of their salaries.
The statement, titled, ‘On UTAS we stand,’ the union described the fraud saga as a contradiction of the acclaimed anti-corruption posture of the regime of the President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).
It reads, “The recent can of worms in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation where the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has uncovered a fraud of not less than a whopping N80bn sufficiently vindicates our union’s position that IPPIS is a fraud.”
“Apart from undermining the statutory functions of the Governing Councils and breaching the establishment integrity of the tertiary education sector in general and the College of Education system in particular, IPPIS opens the payroll up to unilateral manipulations and cool fraud.
Recall that COEASU has been at loggerheads with the Federal Government over its opposition to the IPPIS payment platform.
