The Academic Staff Union of Universities
has described the University of Ilorin as a terrorist organisation
after the institution reportedly sacked the ASUU chairman in the school,
Dr. Kayode Afolayan, for allegedly exposing corrupt practices of the
outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali.
In a letter
signed on behalf of the union by the chairman of the University of
Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Dr. Ayodeji Omole, and the Zonal Coordinator,
ASUU Ibadan Zone, Dr. Ade Adejumo, the lecturers said that Unilorin
under Ambali devised all means to suppress legitimate industrial
activities in order to avoid exposure of his misdeeds.
The letter
partly read, “Indeed, the university prides itself in its ability to
kill off (members of) staff and students that are connected in any way
to ASUU leadership. This hate crime on the part of the university is
usually carried out under the guise of uninterrupted academic calendar.
Yet, many universities have also maintained a stable academic calendar
without destroying union members or their careers. To all intents and
purposes, Unilorin has become a terrorist organisation as far as
industrial relation is concerned.
“Prof Ambali took all these
to an unprecedented height when in 2015, he smuggled his wife, Dr.
Taiwo Ambali, into the university through the temporary appointment
route as Lecturer 1. By 2016, less than one year later, she had been
promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer, when the regulation specifies
at least three years before such a promotion could take place.
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