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Federal Government has said that it may adopt the University Transparency Account System (UTAS) being presented by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as alternative payment platform to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS).
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said UTAS is home grown and deserve in-depth scrutiny.
He stated this after a meeting with the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan to resolve the lingering crisis between the Federal Government and ASUU.
Ngige explained that the meeting resolved to give required consideration to the UTAS as a way of finding lasting solution to the lingering crisis over implementation of IPPIS.
“We have neither jettisoned the implementation of the IPPIS nor fully accepted UTAS. The level we are now is to subject UTAS to integrity test and in doing so, it will be presented to users like the office of the Accountant General of the Federation on Wednesday.”
“After that, it will be sent to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and office of the National Security Adviser for second look,” he said.
