The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU in the South-East has maintained that enrollment of its members into the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS will erode autonomy of universities. The ASUU leaders, whospoke-in separately, said they were in total support of the position of thenational leadership of the union. ASUU chairman of AlexEkwueme Federal University, Ebonyi, Egwu Ogugua, pointed out that members ofthe union were committed to the collective struggle. Also, a universitylecturer and human rights activist, Gilbert Ekuma, urged the Federal Governmentto toe the path of dialogue with ASUU, in order to avert disruption of academicactivities in the nation’s federal universities. Gilbert Ekuma, auniversity lecturer and human rights activist, urged the Federal Government totoe the path of dialogue with ASUU to avert disruption of academic activitiesin the nation’s federal universities. The Zonal Coordinator ofASUU in Owerri zone, Uzo Onyebinama also maintained that IPPIS violateduniversity autonomy and did not address the peculiarity inherent in the natureand structure of universities.