EDO: ASUU Urge Fashola To Call LASU VC To Order
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Benin Zone has called on Governor Babatunde Fasola of Lagos State who is the visitor to the state-owned institution to call to order the Vice Chancellor Prof John Oladapo Fafunwa, from plunging the university into further crisis.
The zonal coordinator of ASUU, Dr Anthony said the crisis rocking the institution was one too many as there was need for the governing council to appropriately implement the university miscellaneous act, to apprehend the excesses of the vice chancellor and institute order.
Addressing newsmen today at the University of Benin premises where all members of ASUU from the Benin Zone comprises AAU Akungba, AAU Ekpoma, DELSU Abraka and the University of Benin, met to x-ray activities of Lagos State University (LASU), faulted the professor John Oladapo Fafunwa, the vice chancellor for indulging in administrative impunity and disregard for established norms and witch-hunting.
He said the vice chancellor has devised a means of oppressing ASUU members for steadfastness, alleging that Prof Tunde Fatunde, the chairman of ASUU-LASU is now one of his victim has been placed on interdiction and his PHD certificate withdrawn. While also noting that there Is a plan to factionalize the branch so as to stop the check –off deductions and strangulate the union in the university.