CAY HILL--A former employee of the National Institute for Professional Advancement (NIPA) has placed a lien on NIPA’s two accounts crippling the institute from making payments including paying its workers their January salaries.
The Daily Herald understands that the lien was placed on NIPA’s dollar and guilder account by the former staffer over payments that had to be made in accordance with a court verdict. NIPA had made a payment as had been stipulated in the verdict, but this newspaper understands that a second payment was requested that was supposedly not taken up in the verdict and this led to the placing of the lien.
The second payment has since been made and NIPA is hoping to have the lien lifted as soon as possible so that it can proceed to pay its workers. NIPA believes that the lien is unlawful, but it made the second payment in protest to get the situation resolved.
Approximately 30 staffers from the institute have been affected.
