The Joint Action Committee on Trade
Unions University of Nigeria Nsukka made up of Academic Staff Union
(ASUU) and Non Academic Staff Union of the University and Inter centres
(NASU) have called for probe and immediate removal of Batho Okolo, the
vice chancellor for maladministration.
The unions also called for the removal
of Olufumi A. Brown whose reposting to the university as the
representative of the minister was according to the union, done in bad
taste.
According to them, “the same woman
served in the inglorious Igwe-led council that destroyed the culture of
transparency and accountability in the University and institutionalised
regimented monarchist era rooted in impunity and disregard to University
Regulations.”
JAC condemned in its entirety the
continued complicity of highly placed officers from the ministry of
education in looting and undermining accountability in the university,
saying that some miscreants collide with the VC to cover some open cases
of fraud in the university.
They said that the VC disbanded the
students’ union government so that he will not be checked over his
excesses in the university and thereby called for the immediate
reconstitution of the students’ union government without further delay.
Ifeanyichukwu Abada, chairman, ASUU-UNN
in an address read to the press, said that the list of the VC’s
atrocities is endless and that they have since presented few of them to
the University Council but regretted that the Council is facing
frustration arising from the uncooperative attitude of the
administration.
The Union decried the prostrate state of
affairs in all the administrative units, departments, faculties and
directorates and condemned the tendency by the administration to deprive
these units/departments and faculties of the goods and services meant
to run them.
However, in the recent press briefing by
the VC, he claimed that the University is doing well financially. The
Vice Chancellor pointed out that the university purchased new liaison
office and business facilities capable of generating over N2 billion
annually for the university among other facilities.
By: Regis Anukwuoji
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