Angered by what
it described as sundry offences and alleged gross misconduct by some of the
lecturers, the management of the Delta State University (DELSU) has dismissed
two of its lecturers in the Department of Economics, and sent a professor in
the same department on compulsory retirement.
Three other lecturers of the Department of Agricultural Economics,
Extension are also in trouble over alleged sex-for-marks, a demand the
university management said can never be accepted or allowed to thrive in the
institution.
In a statement signed by
the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Victor Peretemode, a copy of
which was made available to DAILY POST in Asaba, said the three lecturers are
stagnated for three years while the professor would be retired from the
university system next week.
The names of the
affected lecturers were withheld in the release, but the Vice Chancellor said
the decision to ensure the affected lecturers are dealt with accordingly, was
reached at the 106th meeting of the Governing Council of the university after
the Senior Staff Disciplinary Committee (SSDC) which carried out an
investigation on acts of misconduct levelled against the lecturers, submitted
its findings and recommendations to the Governing Council.
It was gathered that
following the decision of the university management to lay off the affected
lecturers, especially the three affected lecturers stagnated for three years,
there is palpable tension and fear of the unknown in the university community
as alleged efforts by them to get the State governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa to
intervene, had been unsuccessful.
A staff of the
university, who spoke to newsmen on condition of anonymity, said, “the affected
lecturers, many of them are in the department of Animal and Environmental Biology,
While another senior lecturer whose name did not appear with others, was warned
for negligence of duty and told to strictly abide by the rules and regulations
of the university as they relate to the conduct of the examination. All the
information was also published in the school bulletin, there is serious tension
and lobby to come back at all costs”.
Professor Peretemode disclosed that no fewer than
10 lecturers and non academic staff have been sacked in the last few months for
gross misconduct and sundry offences, stressing that the university’s
management has zero tolerance for offences committed by any staff .
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