The federal government on Monday said it was deliberately misled by the managements of some Nigerian universities into paying salaries to some deceased members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) through the Integrated Personnel Payroll system (IPPIS).
"On the alleged payment to dead university staff, it means the Institutions deliberately forwarded to IPPIS the list containing dead ASUU members as being part of their personnel, to get more personnel fund," Mr Idris said.
On the 7.5 per cent deduction for employees' pension contributions, Mr Idris faulted ASUU's claims that it should be based on basic salary and not on consolidated salary.
On the 2 per cent deduction from consolidated salary as union dues, Mr Idris said this was done to save the government "from being accused of denying ASUU their dues."
'Unfair accusation'
Describing as unfair, the accusation that IPPIS was withholding funds deducted from lecturers' salaries, Mr Idris said until January 2020, the tertiary institutions were in charge of the payment of their salaries.
