Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has reaffirmed its sanction on academic collaborations on Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, over dismissal of some lecturers.
It was after ASUU National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at University of Ibadan on August 17 and 18.
The dismissed officials are Isaac Akinloye Oyewumi (chairperson), Adebowale Adeyemi-Suenu (vice chair), Anthony Dansu (secretary), Adeolu Oyekan (assistant secretary), and Oluwakemi Aboderin-Shonibare (treasurer).
They were accused of unauthorised removal, retention and dissemination or publication of official confidential documents and sacked.
ASUU resolved that until the members “wrongfully” sacked by LASU are recalled, others should stop “sabbatical leave, visitation, part-time lectureship, external examinations, external assessments, conferences, workshops, research collaborations/visitations, etc to and from LASU.”
The council said it would support the sacked lecturers until they are reinstated.
It ordered its branch at the university to furnish the National Secretariat of the council “with, up-to-date report”.
Following council’s resolution, ASUU National President, Emmanuel Osodeke, in a statement of, called on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to reinstate the lecturers “unjustly” dismissed in 2019.
Osodeke said he was “disappointed with Lagos State government’s refusal to release the White Paper on visitation panel to LASU more than two years after.”
“The seeming silence is unbecoming of an elected government,” Osodeke had said.
“We call on Babajide Sanwo-Olu to redeem his pledge to do the right thing at LASU and ensure recall of our unjustly sacked colleagues,” he said.
In February 2022, the David Sunmoni-led governing council reinstated the lecturers after an Appeal Committee, headed by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Adenike Boyo, cleared the lecturers.
But, 48 hours after the council approved its appeal committee’s recommendation, the same council ruled to put the recall of the lecturers on hold.
The state is yet to reinstate the lecturers more than two years later.
Source: The Nation
