FUNAAB Crisis Deepens As SSANU Shuts VC Lodge, Senate Building

The crisis rocking the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State assumed a new dimension Wednesday as the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) locked the residential lodge of the institution’s Vice Chancellor,
Prof Olusola Oyewole, and asked him to vacate office.
The union also put the Senate Building of the university under lock and key, vowing 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, 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.”
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