SSANU Suspended FUNAAB VC And Lock Senate Building

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) Federal University Of Agriculture FUNAAB chapter locked the residential lodge of the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof Olusola Oyewole, and asked him to
vacate office.

The union also lock the Senate Building of the university promising to embark on an industrial
action.

Rising from an emergency congress held at the university campus, SSANU called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently remove the Vice Chancellor
and dissolve the institution’s Governing Council.

The development was fallout of the
investigation of the Vice Chancellor and the institution’s Bursar, Moses Ilesanmi,by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of
unbridled corruption and betrayal of
public trust.

A group, ‘Concerned Stakeholders of
FUNAAB,’ had detailed several cases of sleaze and funds mismanagement in the university, prompting the anti-graft agency to quiz Oyewole and Ilesanmi
last week.

As a result or this, the VC suspended
three members of SSANU, including
Comrade Salaam Sobur (National
Publicity Secretary), Comrade
Emmanuel Bankole (National Deputy President) and Comrade Lasun Somoye (former Public Relations Officer of FUNAAB), for alleged “meddlesomeness and confirmatory evidence in the act
prejudicial to the smooth running and governance of the university.”

The university, whose Governing
Council is headed by a former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, was also rocked by a students’ riot last week.