Members of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnic (SSANIP) have described the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information (IPPIS) introduced by the Federal Government as fraud, calling for its scrapping.

The members said this on Thursday during a protest held at The Polytechnic, Ibadan.

The workers, who converged in Ibadan from Polytechnics across the South West, also demanded payment of salary arrears of their members in Osun, Ondo, and Ogun States.

National Vice President of SSANIP, Ayo Bankole, who led other members of the association decried the deduction of pension contributions from their salaries without remitting same to pension fund administrators.

According to him, the demands are the immediate implementation of the NEEDS assessment report and the release of funds for the development of the Polytechnic sub-sector as had been done for the universities, without further delay.

Others are the necessary inputs of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics in the proposed new scheme of service by the NBTE, before its release as well as issues of non-payment of complete salaries, arrears of the new minimum wage for staff in the Polytechnic sub-sector, hazard and shift duty allowances to medical staff in the Polytechnics among others.

The union also called for immediate resolution of all lingering issues around the IPPIS platform, even after almost a year since coming on board as well as the immediate constitution of governing councils in all Federal and State Polytechnics. 

In his remark, the Zonal Secretary of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnic, Sunday Akomolafe, said Nigeria must invest massively in the Polytechnics

He also said the tax deducted from the salaries of workers was too high.