Deputy Director General of Progressives People’s Forum (PPF) in-charge of North, Malam Baba Abba Misau has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and minister of education Malam Adamu Adamu for introducing Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information (IPPIS) into the tertiary education sector.
Abba who gave the commendation in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Thursday in Bauchi said the system will greatly help in reducing unemployment amongst graduates in the country.
While applauding the federal ministry of education for taking the right decision by introducing IPPIS, Abba expressed confidence that the system will no doubt help in combating corruption in the educational sector of the country.
“With this new development brought by the education ministry under the able leadership of Malam Adamu, corruption will be cleared because you cannot be a staff in four different universities.
The issue of IPPIS will by extension create a vacuum for other people to field in and be gainfully employed which will in turn, reduce the rate of unemployment in the country”, he said.
According to him, “it is not good to say that a lecturer is teaching in more than one institution and at the same time collecting salaries from different employers while others who are qualified are blocked from having job to do”.
Abba commended the minister of education, Malam Adamu Adamu for making efforts that has during his stewardship translated into a total transformation of the educational system in the country, particularly the tertiary institutions.
“Malam Adamu who happens to be the 46th minister of education in the country has been one of the greatest pushers of education because it is only during his time that the sector got about N1.3 trillion from 2015 to 2019, no other government has spent on education and make positive impact like this government, courtesy of Malam Adamu’s vision and his giant stride towards the education sector”, he said.
According to Abba, UBEC, one of the parastatals under the stewadship of the minister has spent more than N350 billion as interventions to states as well as more than N800 billion through the TETFund on tertiary institutions across the country.
He said, “before taking charge as minister of education, Malam Adamu for instance from 2010 to 2015 when he was not a minister of education the remittal from JAMB to the federal treasury was not up to N50 million but under Malam Adamu, JAMB remitted N7.8 billion to the federation account in 2018 alone and it remitted N5 billion in 2019. So, you can see the difference”.
“During the PDP era when Malam Adamu was not the minister, only N50 million was remitted but now we are talking of billions not millions. But again, the federal government in its magnanimity, decided to reduce JAMB fees so that the common man can afford.” Abba added.
On the agitation for the actualization of federal college of education, FCE Misau, Alhaji Abba noted that there is no reason for other people to call for the sitation of the college somewhere other than Misau because the bill for its creation was purposely meant for Misau which was passed into law by the Senate.
“How can someone start to agitate for the situation of the FCE somewhere else when the national assembly has Gazetted it to be in Misau. By law, it has been passed, what is left now is for it to take off.” Abba said.
According to him, for somebody to be calling for the sitation of the institution in a different place is doing a wrong thing because the law says it should be in Misau.
He said that the issue of siting the college in Misau has been sealled as it was initially meant for the area and no other place in Bauchi.
“The issue of where to site the institution has passed and what is left now is the issue of takeoff, we are not talking about siting now because the law has sited it in Misau”, says Malam Baba.
Baba who expressed hope that academic activities will soon commence in the college in Misau, thanked the minister for finding Bauchi state and by extension, Misau most suitable place for the college, saying that it will boost learning process in the area.
