There is unease at Ambrose Alli University (AAU),
Ekpoma following the alleged appointments of some senior staff members to
strategic positions in the institutions without recourse to due process.
A close source fumed, noting that a university which
ought to be governed by laws and regulations has jump-pass statutory procedures
to succumb to the whims of the authorities in the appointment of some persons
to positions in the university, thereby undermining the very foundations of the
school.
The source, who would not want his name in print,
accused the disbanded Special Intervention Team (SIT), foisted on the school by
the immediate past former governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, of setting
the destructive trajectory in motion, by creating the Office of the Head of
Corporate Communications, that has no place in the university's law and
regulations.
The source added that the sudden elevation of some of
these non-academic staff to high positions and above their superiors in the
state owned tertiary institution, who passed through all the rungs of the
ladder to earn their various ranks, is a misnomer.
Continuing, he claimed that the recently dissolved
Governing Council of the university, chaired by Dr. Frank Omo-Ehijele Odafen,
perpetuated this cycle of irregularities, by breaching statutory procedures in
the appointment of another non-academic staff.
The angst among some senior staff in the university is
palpable, as they perceive the latest appointment as inappropriate ranking and
a strategic maneuver by a member of the dissolved council to still maintain his
grip on the university even after the sack by Governor Monday Okpebholo.
Also, the aggrieved co-workers believe that the
presence of the staff in one of the key departments is designed by the
ex-member of the council to monitor and influence happenings in the university
against the interests of well-meaning stakeholders and the state government.
The source further disclosed that some members of the
recently dissolved Council still maintained a vice-like grip on the university,
with hopes of returning to power in the university in the future.
Concordonline News gathered that the situation has
raised tension in the university and is threatening to consume it, unless the
state government immediately intervenes to rectify these irregular appointments
and manipulations.
The source warned: "The university's future hangs
in the balance, as it risks surrendering to maladministration, disaffection
among administrative officers, academic stagnation and systemic decimation. The
call to rescue this university from the throes of irregular appointments and
decay is loud and clear."
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