FUOYE Staffs ‘Expose Sins’ Of Former Registrar

Staff members of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), on Friday, opened a can of worms of the various offences the former registrar of the institution, Mr. Olatunbosun Odusanya, committed which led to the recent termination of his appointment by the Governing Council of the school.

The staff in a release co-signed by their leaders, who represented unions such as the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU),

were reacting to allegations of personal vendetta made by the sacked registrar against the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, as being cause of his sack.

Odusanya had also said that he was being punished for an offence he didn’t commit, as he was only acting based on alleged directives from his former boss, Prof. Kayode Soremekun.

But in a press release entitled; “Ranting of a Drowning Man,” signed by the union leaders, including Comrade Ojumoola Ayodele, NASU Chairman; Comrade (Engr.) Abioye James, (NAAT) Chairman; Comrade Adu Olaoluwa, (SSANU) Vice Chairman;

Comrade Ayeni Abraham, (NASU) Secretary; Comrade Babafemi, NAAT Secretary; Comrade Faleye Benjamin, (SSANU) Secretary, the staff members said Odusanya acted unilaterally based on records available to them.

“We use this briefing to intimate you and the general public of the current issues in our university, most especially, as a response to the recent interview granted by one Mr. Odusanya Sunday Emmanuel Olatunbosun, the erstwhile registrar of FUOYE.

“Members of the public would recall that FUOYE, in the last five years, has been on the negative side of the media, owing to the high level of impunity, victimisation and intimidation of staff, abuse of power, managerial and administrative incompetency, flagrant disregards for due process,

financial recklessness, unabated corrupt practices, employment/admission racketeering and irregularities as well as breakdown of industrial confidence as a result managerial nihilism and non-compliance with the rule of law on the part of the managers of the university.

“Meanwhile, for all these malaise, we have cried out, but to no avail.

“It is disheartening that the architect of the above systemic failure (Mr. Odusanya Olatubosun), who is solely responsible for his current predicament, is now going to the media to mislead and seek public sympathy, blaming his termination of appointment on the current vice-chancellor of FUOYE, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, who just assumed office on 11th February, 2021.

“To set the record straight, Mr. Odusanya himself happens to be a product of illegality into the university system and then, he kept on the pace of the illegality until recently when he was caught by the long hand of the extant laws governing the activities of the university, just as the popular saying that ‘every day is for the thief, but one day is for the owner.’”

According to the union leaders, the offences of Mr. Odusanya included the following: “Mr. Odusanya was involved in recruitment irregularities between 1st August, 2020 and 10th February, 2021.

He was queried by the University Governing Council and was given a right of reply. His reply was not tenable enough for him to be exonerated from the allegations of misconducts.

“He was suspended to pave the way for a thorough and unhindered investigation. A Disciplinary Committee was set up to look into the case; he appeared before the committee and he was found culpable;

and because the era of impunity is gone in FUOYE, he was punished accordingly for the offense which he has confessed to have committed during his appearances before both Review of Appointments Committee and Staff Disciplinary Committee.

“The public should note the following: Mr. Odusanya singlehandedly initiated and concluded most of the illegal appointments, including professors and senior administrative officers; most of the people he recruited did not submit application letters;

interviews were not conducted; the Governing Council of the University was not aware of the illegal recruitments; no budgetary provisions for the recruitments;

most of the appointment letters were issued in a hotel room in Ado-Ekiti, as Mr. Odusanya ordered the Personnel Affairs Office of the university to be relocated to the hotel, in order to perpetrate the illegality at the expense of the university.

“No advertisement for the recruitments as required by statutes; advice from regulating agencies like the National Universities Commission (NUC), the Federal Character Commission (FCC), office of the Head of Service of the Federation and Ministry of Budget and National Planning on recruitment procedures was not followed.

“Heads of Departments/Units and Deans were not consulted for any of the recruitments as stated in FUOYE Scheme of Service.

“Mr. Odusanya, who has been the Lord of the Manor in FUOYE, was responsible for the illegal sacking, suspension, victimisation and intimidation of many innocent staff, especially those that aired their opinions against his greed, incompetence and corrupt tendencies in the university in the last five years.

“He should be honourable enough to see his termination of appointment as a soft landing by the Governing Council as against outright dismissal which was what he deserved and stop looking for who to blame for his ordeal.”