President Muhammadu Buhari has said that no civil servant on the payroll of the Federal Government will receive salary henceforth without enrolment on the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike over a disagreement with the Federal Government on the mode of payment of lecturers.
The strike commenced in March.
But President Buhari, speaking at the presentation of the 2021 Budget to a Joint Sitting of the National Assembly on Thursday, said there was no going back on the decision to use the IPPIS for payment of all categories of civil servants.
Buhari, during the presentation, which lasted for about one hour, said revenue generation was the major challenge facing his administration.
InsideBusiness recalls that President Buhari had also during the presentation of the 2020 Budget in October 2019, directed the Minister of Finance, Budget and Nation Planning, Zainab Ahmed, not to pay ASUU members that did not register on IPPIS.
The president, however, in March 2020 approved the payment of salaries to ASUU members as part of efforts to starve off the strike action by the union.
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