The Lagos State University Authority has warned all the
dismissed staff to stay off the campus...
In a press release signed by Acting
Head, Center for Information, Press and Public Relations, Lagos State
University, Ojo, Mr Ademola Adekoya, the Management received information that
some erstwhile Staff of the University who have been dismissed by the
University Governing Council, for one form of misconduct or the other have been
coming into the University premises, intent on initiating violence and
breakdown of Law and Order on the peaceful Campus. The University Authority
hereby reiterates that ALL individuals who have been dismissed should stay away
from the premises of Lagos State University henceforth. The advice is already
contained in their Letters of Dismissal, which were not only delivered to them
through their respective Deans/Departmental Heads, but were also sent to their
E-mail Addresses [Personal and Official], as well as Text messages on Friday,
8th September, 2017, immediately after the decision was taken by the Governing
Council of the University. For the avoidance of doubt, Concerned Individuals
and the General Public are reminded that the Governing Council is the highest
Policy/Decision making body of the University. In the circumstance, all members
of the University Community who have chosen to sentimentally support the
dismissed Individuals [covertly or openly] to undermine the decision of the
Council are also acting contrary to the rules and regulations of the University
and are advised to refrain from doing so. It is imperative to state
categorically that the misconducts for which they were dismissed were not Union
related, and the disciplinary mechanism of the University [as backed by the
Conditions of Service] was dully followed in the Process to arrive at their
dismissal. Against this background, the dismissed Individuals who wish to have
access to the University premises must contact the Chief Security Officer of
the University who will facilitate such access as may be appropriate. It would
be recalled that on Wednesday, Lagos zone of the Academic Staff Union of
Universities, led by Prof Olusiji Sowande of the Federal University of
Agriculture (FUNAAB) held a press conference in LASU to condemn in its
entirety, the ignoble decision of the LASU Governing Council which purportedly
dismissed the Chair of the Branch, Dr Isaac Oyewumi, the Vice Chairman, Dr
Adebowale Adeyemi-Suenu and some other academic staff on unfounded, baseless
and trump up charges. According to him,the zone regrets the puppeteer role
played by some members of the Council in the process that struggled to give a
veneer of credibility to the bizarre trial process. ‘We are not in doubt that
the ugly developments in LASU fits into a wider pattern of assault on our Union
across university campuses by opportunists in power whose aim is the erosion
and bastardization of true university culture and the introduction of impunity
and elitism into the system to the disadvantage of the idea of robust
scholarship and the interest of the generality of Nigerians”, he said. He said
the Lagos zone of ASUU believes that the current development has a major aim,
the weakening of the Union as a prelude to a flurry of policies and decisions
that are not only against the interest of members but also in the long run, the
progress of the University. “The zone wishes to also condemn unequivocally
attempts by the Vice Chancellor to forcefully eject the Chairperson of the
Union from the Union’s secretariat as well as the University premises and
assures that efforts orchestrate a change of leadership in the LASU Branch of
our Union by chicanery will not succeed”, he said.
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