The Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has dismissed the allegation of double salary being peddled by some sacked lecturers of the university against the Vice-Chancellor (VC), Prof. Abayomi Fasina, describing it as a campaign of calumny and defamation of character.
According to the university, a series of administrative panels were set up by the Ekiti State University (EKSU) and FUOYE, which probed into the matter, and security agencies had since exonerated the VC of the allegations.
Lecturers, who were sacked by the institution – Dr. Akinyemi Omonijo, Dr. Oniyide Akingbe and Dr. Oluwagbemiga Adeyemi – had accused the VC of collecting double salary as a staff of EKSU while on a sabbatical at FUOYE, where he eventually emerged as the VC after a rigorous selection process last year.
FUOYE, in a statement signed by the institution’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Foluso Ogunmodede, and media aide to the VC, Wole Balogun, yesterday, accused one of the sacked lecturers, who was impeached as local branch chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), of telling lies.
The statement wondered why the lecturer would refuse to turn a new leaf, despite the nemesis that caught up with him for his past deeds.
According to the university, blackmail has become the sacked lecturer’s stock in trade since 2018 when things turned sour for him after he was reportedly found guilty of gross misconduct for violating several aspects of the university’s regulations, most notably the public display of the institution’s confidential documents, including letters of appointment and payslips of some staff.
The university warned that spreading lies to the public, with the aim of rubbishing a system that had nurtured a person, would only increase his sorrow and deepen his frustration.
Reacting to a viral publication allegedly sponsored by the ex-lecturer entitled ‘ASUU’s objections on state of FUOYE, unethical recruitment, behind our unlawful sack’, the university described the claims as false.
“The truth is that the lecturer and his co-travellers were found guilty of gross misconduct against the university after proper investigation and disciplinary procedures carefully and transparently exhausted.
“Our reaction to the lies is that the VC has never collected double salaries from EKSU and FUOYE, and no panel of either university has indicted him on this, including the anti-graft agencies. Particularly, the ICPC had probed the allegation and found nothing against the VC.”
