No Going Back On Fight Against Corruption In Universities – ASUU

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*ask EFCC to release  findings on alleged N2billion fraud in Unilorin

 

By; BAYO AKAMO ,Ibadan

Academic Staffs Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday declared that there will be no going back in its determination to fight corruption in Nigeria Universities.

The union in a statement issued and signed  by ASUU in a statement by its Ibadan Zone Coordinator, Dr Ade Adejumo titled ‘impunity and disregard for the Rule of Law: the Cases of the University of Ilorin, Kogi State University and Lagos State University’asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)   to release its findings on the alleged N2billion  fraud petition on the University of Ilorin it submitted to it over a year ago.

ASUU lamented that it was unfortunate that anti-corruption agencies in the country such as the   ICPC, CCB and EFCC have failed in  bringing the administrations of Professors Ishaq Oloyede and Abdulganiyu Ambali as Vice Chancellors of University of Ilorin to justice despite substantial evidence which allegedly nailed them on corruption issues.

The union maintained that nothing can stop it from continuing to expose corruption in universities despite victimisation of its members adding that Federal government should order the recall of all sacked and victimised ASUU members at the Kogi State University, Lagos State University and University of Ilorin.

In the statement ASUU while asking President Buhari to check the growing impunity at the Unilorin, emphasized that the failure of the anti-corruption agencies to make public their investigations on its petition has made a mockery of the whistle blowing policy of the Buhari administration and allowed impunity to thrive while the whistle blowers, Drs Kayode Afolayan and Solomon Oyelekan were sacked for daring to expose corruption at UNILORIN.

“It is worrisome that the Lagos State University went ahead to sack its members (Drs Isaac Akinloye and Adebowale Adeyemi-suenu)balleged of altering students’ results and demanding money from students without proven evidence beyond reasonable doubt and asked Governor Ambode to intervene.”.it said

The Union insisted that the time has come for President Buhari as  the Visitor to the University of Ilorin to prevail on the council to recall sacked officials of the union, and raise  a “special probe panel of men and women of integrity to look into the books of past administrations in Unilorin.”

“In a country where universities are short of qualified academic staff, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state terminated the appointment of 120 members of our union and got unqualified persons to impart the knowledge they do not possess. ASUU believes in the rule of law and will continue to expose the dangers of the criminality that is presently going on in these universities despite victimisation of our members. we call on the visitors in these universities to stop the impunity and recall the sacked lecturers”

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