The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has imposed heavy sanctions on lecturers at the Lagos State University, Ojo, saying no Nigerian university should relate with them.
The NEC also barred the lecturers from sabbatical leave, visitations, external assessments, conferences, workshops and research collaborations.
The decisions were taken at the ASUU NEC meeting which held from March 7 to 8, 2020 at the Enugu State University of Technology.
The resolutions of the NEC, obtained by our correspondent, showed that the decisions were taken after the council considered a report of the ad-hoc committee on LASU.
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The Vice-Chancellor of the varsity, Prof Olanrewaju Fagbohun, was also declared an enemy of the union in a bulletin signed by the ASUU LASU Secretary, Dr Tony Dasu, and the Assistant Secretary, Dr Adeola Oyekan.
Oyekan, who confirmed the development in a telephone conversation with our correspondent on Friday, said the union headquarters took the decisions over several cases of victimisation allegedly perpetrated by the management.
He explained that those who exposed the alleged academic fraud, especially the union leaders, were sacked.
The union leader said ASUU believed that what was happening at the university was a witch-hunt being led by the vice-chancellor.
Saturday Punch learnt that Oyekan and the union secretary, Dasu, were also dismissed in September 2019 for being in possession of documents allegedly exposing the VC’s illegal professorship.
He said ASUU had decided to go to court to challenge the sacking, adding that a total of five union officers had been dismissed on what he called “frivolous charges”.
“That is what has been going on under Professor Fagbohun. Those were the reasons the national body imposed the sanctions on LASU,” Oyekan said.
An online news platform, Premium Times, which had been following the crisis, stated that the varsity management had already ordered staff members to take oaths of secrecy forbiding them from disclosing matters of the institution to the public.
In his reaction, the spokesperson for the university, Ademola Adekoya, told our correspondent that he had yet to see the ASUU resolutions. Punch