The decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to set up a visitation panel, for the University of Lagos, made up of former university vice-chancellors was wrong, Wale Babalakin said in his resignation letter on Tuesday.
PREMIUM TIMES reported Mr Babalakin’s resignation as the pro-chancellor of the troubled institution just after the panel set up by the president submitted its report.
The panel was set up after an August 12 emergency meeting of the university’s governing council, led by Mr Babalakin, announced the removal of the institution’s substantive vice-chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.
Mr Ogundipe rejected his removal as illegal, thus worsening the crisis in the federal university for whom the president is the Visitor.
Consequent upon the controversy, Mr Buhari asked Mr Babalakin and Mr Ogundipe to step aside from the offices.
The president also set up the seven-member visitation panel led by former vice-chancellor of Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, Niger State, Tukur Sa’ad.
The panel was to look into the crisis rocking the university and the allegations levelled against Mr Ogundipe by the governing council.
The committee submitted its report to the minister of education, Adamu Adamu, Thursday without divulging the content.
In his resignation letter, Mr Babalakin faulted the membership of the visitation panel.
“The membership of the Visitation Panel is simply inappropriate in the circumstance. How can a committee of Vice-Chancellors determine the culpability or otherwise of the actions of a Pro-Chancellor and a Governing Council? On the face of it, it is simply wrong!,” he said.
According to him, the vice-chancellors on the panel were drawn from relatively smaller universities who are not likely to have a comprehensive understanding of the procedure contained in the University of Lagos Act (as amended).
“Even Vice-Chancellors of state universities were included. As Chairman of the Federal Government Negotiation Team, I know the challenges faced with the administration of state universities,” Mr Babalakin said while insisting that the removal of Mr Ogundipe followed due process.
Read Mr Babalakin’s full resignation letter below.
15th September 2020
The Honourable Minister of Education
Federal Ministry of Education
Block 5A, Federal Secretariat Complex
Shehu Shagari Way
Abuja
Attention: Mallam Adamu Adamu
Dear Sir
LETTER OF RESIGNATION
a. Corruption and financial recklessness;
b. Forgery;
a. Corruption and financial recklessness;
b. Forgery;
c. Complicity in the collapse of the University library and planned cover-up;
d. Deliberate policy of wrongfully concealing information;
e. Depriving the Faculties in the University of funds;
f. Concealing and distorting finances of the Internally Generating Units of the University;
g. Undermining the academic process and seeking to appoint a Professor by fiat;
h. Siphoning of the University’s funds through dubious contract awards;
i. Undermining the office of the Registrar;
j. Failure to follow due process in organizing the University’s convocation ceremony; and
k. Sponsoring or acquiescing in the unconstitutional actions of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Lagos chapter.
a. To review the report of the Council sub-committee on review of expenditure of the University of Lagos since May 2017 and make appropriate recommendations after affording all those indicted an opportunity to defend themselves;
b. To examine the steps taken by the Council leading to the removal of the Vice Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and ascertain whether due process was followed as stipulated in the Universities (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Act, 2003, and the principle of fair hearing adhered to;
c. To determine whether the process (if any) leading to the appointment of the acting Vice Chancellor for the University was consistent with the provisions of the enabling Act;
d. To make appropriate recommendations including sanctions for all those found culpable by the special visitation team on the allegations contained in the report as well as other subsequent actions arising therefrom; and
e. To make any other recommendations that will assist the government to take decisions that will ensure peaceful, stable and effective administration of the University.
“I have discovered that there are too many vested interests in this matter, who are not approaching the issues objectively. For this reason, I strongly advise that the Visitation Panel should not submit any formal report to the Minister that may hinder my ability to deal with the issues comprehensively”
a. Pro-Chancellor, University of Maiduguri (2009 – 2013);
b. Chairman, Council of Pro-Chancellors of all Federal Universities (2009 – 2013);
c. Chairman, Federal Government Implementation Team of the 2009 Agreement (2009 – 2013);
d. Chairman, Federal Government Negotiation Team of the 2009 Agreement (2017 till date);
e. Pro-Chancellor, University of Lagos (2017 till date).
a. I did not receive any sitting allowance.
b. I did not receive any tickets or travel allowance.
c. I did not receive or use any official car.
d. In the University of Maiduguri and University of Lagos, I did not allow the institutions to provide me with food or drinks. I paid for every right or privilege that was conferred on me.
e. Even when I travelled to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria, I paid for my ticket and my expenses.
f. I did not obtain any contract from the education sector in my relative long sojourn in the sector.
a. Alhaji Ali Hussein;
b. Rev. Yomi Kasai;
c. Dr. Bayo Adaralegbe; and
d. Dr. Saminu Dagari.
Sir, may the Almighty Allah continue to bless you.
Yours faithfully
Dr. B. O. Babalakin
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