As the demand for the
immediate removal of the Vice Chancellor, University of Nigeria, Nsukka,
Professor Bartho Okolo, and reinstatement of the pro-chancellor, Dr. Emeka
Enejere, gets messier, the Joint Action Committee of the institution has called
on the Federal Government to set up panel of inquiry to look into the crisis in
the university.
ASUU chairperson and chairman of
JAC, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, chapter, Dr. Ifeanyi Abada, announced this
in a prayer rally held at the freedom square of the university yesterday,
explaining that illegality and criminal tendencies had taken the centre stage
of the university administration since the inception of Prof. Bartho Okolo as
the vice chancellor.
Dr. Abada said JAC comprises ASUU,
SSANU, NASU and NAT, adding that they all demanded the express removal of the
vice chancellor.
He said the Federal Government
should as a matter of urgency and necessity set up a panel of inquiry to stop
the illegal internal deduction and refund such money to members of staff.
The JAC chairman explained that they
were not only protesting the removal of the vice chancellor but also demanded
the immediate recall of all staff of the institution on suspension for the past
two years on the orders of the vice chancellor, explaining that the committee
also demanded a total stoppage of deductions of electricity bills for staff on
campus.
Counting the many faults of Prof.
Okolo as vice chancellor of the university, the committee requested for the
lifting of ban on non-promotion of security staff of the institution for the
past five years.
Dr. Abada, who was in company of
SSANU Chairman Comrade Paul Obododike and his NASU counterpart, Mr. Godfrey
Ugwu, called for the implementation of Consolidated Tertiary Institutions
Salary Structure, CONTISS II, and implementation of the recommendations of the
university council petitions and appeals committee.
Dr. Abada also noted that the prayer
rally of JAC would continue until the Federal Government looked into the
demands.
Source:Vanguard Newspaper
Source:Vanguard Newspaper
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