24/05/2021
ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU)
BENIN ZONE
21/05/2021
PRESS RELEASE
BENIN ZONE OF ASUU DECLARES AS UNACCEPTABLE THE RECENT ACTIONS OF GOVERNOR GODWIN OBASEKI IN THE STATE OWNED-AMBROSE ALLI UNIVERSITY, EKPOMA
The Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), at the weekend, took a hard look at the recent actions and decisions of the Visitor to Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma and Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki in the state-owned institution and described the actions totally as unacceptable.
The Union said that the Governor’s recent actions does not only constitute an assault on the long-cherished university autonomy, but portend grave and terrifying danger in the management and administration of public universities in Nigeria.
Rising from a meeting held at the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), the Benin Zone of ASUU condemned the specific recent actions of the Governor to include the unprecedented amendment of the University laws, the dissolution of the University’s Governing Council and the appointment of an Acting Vice-Chancellor, which according to the Union were all done “by the Visitor in a most unrefined and fascist manner and in derailment of civil ethos of law making.”
In a release issued in Effurun, Delta State and signed by the Union’s Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Fred Esumeh, the Union particularly noted with concern that the said amendment of the University Laws was not only unconventionally and hastily done but was also shrouded in unholy secrecy, adding that conferring extra-ordinary powers on the Governor and Visitor to the University with and most unfortunately the ‘almighty power’ to do and undo in the management of the University leaves much to be desired. The new law is nothing but an instrument of an emerging sole Administrator cm Dictator, the Union opined.
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