The management of the Lagos State University (LASU) has withdrawn the PhD certificates of some of its members, which include the Chairman of ASUU, LASU branch, Dr. Adekunle Idris.
This was made known by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Lagos zonal Coordinator, Dr. Sola Nasir.
Addressing newsmen at a press briefing held at the old LASU Sociology Department lecture hall, Nasir said management in their letters to the affected lecturers said it discovered some errors in their PhD and asked the holders to return them.
His words: ‘’The ASUU-LASU chairman, Dr Idris is not alone, there are 14 other lecturers with the Accounting Department having the highest with five. For LASU Senate to have made those errors, it places question mark on the persons that make up the Senate. We can rule that the purpose was to victimize some of our members’’.
The ASUU Lagos coordinator called on Governor Babatunde Fashola to set up a visitation panel on LASU and also urged the state government to call the VC to order to give peace a chance.
‘’What we are experiencing in LASU is a fall out of the last ASUU-LASU strike. ASUU Lagos zone and national are behind ASUU-LASU. We will fight him (VC) until he is out of the office’’, Dr. Nasir warned.
Speaking on the development, Idris, said he concluded his PhD in 2011 and was issued the certificate in 2012 and signed by the current Vice Chancellor, Prof John Obafunwa and the former Registrar, Mr. Lateef Animashaun.
“I fulfilled all the conditions before being issued the PhD certificate. It is because of the last ASUU strike; it is a backlash. They are withdrawing the certificate, if I were working abroad what will happen?
“Accreditation is coming up on December 2014, five of the lecturers whose certificates were withdrawn are from a department that will face National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation team. It is an act of victimization. There are 14 persons involved, but I know I am the target. In the letter asking me to return the PhD certificate, no time frame was given unlike others’’.
“My PhD is in the Business Admin (Marketing) but they say the error is the marketing but my counsel has written the Governing Council and VC, Prof Obafunwa”.
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