AWKA- Folllowing a motion moved by the House of Representatives Member representing the good people of Awka North and South Federal Constituency, Prof. Oby Lilian Orogbu, on July 20, 2023, to investigate the delay in capturing and payment of some staff of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, by the authorities of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), an Ad-Hoc Committee set up by the House of Representatives has invited Unizik Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Charles Okechukwu Esimone, for further clarification and confirmation.
The Ad-Hoc Committee, which is an offshoot of the motion moved on the floor of the Green Chamber by House Committee Chairman on Corporate Social Responsibility, Prof. Orogbu, is saddled with investigating Federal Ministries, Department and Agencies, Parastatals, and Tertiary Institutions on mismanagement of personnel recruitment, employment racketeering and gross mismanagement of IPPIS.
While interrogating Prof. Esimone on Tuesday, August 15, 2023, the Panel Leader and Chairman House Committee on Judiciary, Hon. Oluwole Oke, wondered how the affected staff could have fended for themselves and their families without payment of salaries for over three years, assuring that the leadership of the House of Representatives is determined to put an end to all the irregularities. Hon. Oke, who represents Obokun/Oriade Federal Constituency, Osun State, tasked the vice-chancellor to provide the panel with comprehensive details of all the affected staff.
In a response, Prof. Esimone, who was represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration), Prof. Joseph Ikechebelu, said that about a thousand staff of the University was affected, and promised to provide a comprehensive details as requested by the Ad-Hoc Committee, even as he decried untold suffering of the affected staff, who he said, still come to work.
Recall that Prof. Oby Lilian Orogbu had on July 20, 2023, moved a very important Motion on the floor of the House, on “the need to investigate the delay in capturing and payment for Nnamdi Azikiwe University workers and other Nigerians in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS)”.
Prof. Orogbu, a seasoned Administrator and Technocrat turned Politician, appealed to her colleagues to see the importance of the Motion, which has kept a lot of UNIZIK staff and workers across the Nation in a serious financial crisis. “The House needs to look into this matter. It’s quite unfair that people would be working for three years, take transport in Nigeria of today and they are not being paid”, Prof. Orogbu decried while presenting the motion, which has since generated a series of engagements with critical stakeholders in a bid to solve the lingering issue.
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