The Management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka has blamed mischief makers for distorting the innocuous remarks of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ahaneku, on staff productivity during the last Senate meeting of the institution.
In a statement on Saturday by the University’s Director of Information, Public Relations and Protocol, Dr. Emmanuel Ojukwu, the school clarified that “in the course of discussion generally about staff productivity in the last Senate meeting, the VIce Chancellor including other Senators condemned truancy, lateness, watching of ‘inappropriate’ videos including home movies during office hours.
“No specific mention of any percentage of those watching these movies was made. And also no such word as ‘pornography’ was mentioned. As a result the Vice Chancellor added that measures were being taken to monitor and make sure that staff do the work for which they get paid.
“It is therefore a complete surprise that some persons are peddling falsehood in the media to achieve a hidden objective. While the University appreciates the right of persons to spread information, distorted information could be injurious to society’s wellbeing.
“We therefore implore all our staff, students, alumni, and friends of our great University to please ignore this current machination of mischief makers whose only aim is to tarnish the hard earned reputation of our University.”
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