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Arrested ‘Unilag’ students did not attack Vice Chancellor – Witnesses

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Contrary to claims by the police, the two people arrested during a convocation ceremony at the University of Lagos, Tuesday, did not attack or plan to attack the vice chancellor, PREMIUM TIMES can report.

Femi Adeyeye and Dotun Olawoye were arrested inside the convocation hall by security agents and taken away by the police.

The suspects were taken to the Sabo Police Station, and later transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, before they were released.

While Mr. Adeyeye is a former student of the university who was rusticated last year over a Facebook post criticising the school’s management, Mr. Olawoye, a cameraman with Sahara Reporters, was attending the convocation of his elder brother, Segun.

Mr. Adeyeye, who was a 400 level student in the Department of Building, was rusticated for four semesters.

The state-owned News Agency of Nigeria reported the Lagos State Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, as confirming the arrest of the ‘students’ and added that the leader of the group that planned the attack was also arrested.

“Policemen have been deployed in the institution to ensure that the convocation week went without any hitch,” Mr. Owoseni said.

But multiple witnesses who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES said the two men did not look like they were attacking anyone in the hall.

“Dotun was arrested for bringing a camera into the hall while Femi was arrested for daring to set foot into the university after his rustication,” a student, who preferred not to be named to avoid victimisation from the school, said.

In a video posted online by Sahara TV, Mr. Adeyeye was seen trying to approach the podium but was blocked by the university’s security men and the police.

Omoyele Sowore, the publisher of Sahara Reporters, was also seen telling the security officers that Mr. Adeyeye was supposed to be among the graduating students but was suspended because of a post on Facebook.

The duo were then manhandled by the security agents.

Segun Olawoye, one of the graduating students, said the Sahara Reporters crew were initially barred from entering the convocation hall.

“I was asking them why are they harassing us? This is graduation and they came for me, so what’s the crime? Did he bring in gun? Is this not a camera?” Asked Mr. Olawoye, who also works for Sahara Reporters.

“It was that annoyance of preventing us to get in that Baba So’ (as Mr. Sowore is fondly called) went in and went to the front, the place they said they reserved for some people that were not even around.

“Femi Adeyeye went to sit with him. They were trying to prevent them at first but the moment they saw we were recording, they left them.”

Mr. Olawoye said after his younger brother, Dotun, and Mr. Adeyeye, were arrested and taken away, he went to Sabo police station to check if they were there but was beaten and detained.

“It was only because I was able to make a call and send a text about what was happening to me that their boss later asked them to release me,” Mr. Olawoye said.

“From there, I went to the Police Commissioner’s office where I saw Dotun and Femi in hand cuffs. Why chain them? What was their offence?”

PREMIUM TIMES learnt that after their release, the duo were directed to return to the State CID on Wednesday by 12 noon.

Vice Chancellor Docked For Alleged N800 Million Fraud Returns Money To EFCC

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The embattled Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta,  Olusola Oyewole, and others accused of corruption have refunded N6.5 million to the anti-graft agency, EFCC.

Mr. Oyewole is facing criminal charges for allegedly misappropriating N800 million belonging to the university. He was charged to court alongside the university’s Pro-Chancellor, Adeseye Ogunlewe, and Bursar, Moses Ilesanmi.

The three were accused of benefitting from various illegal allowances not approved by Nigeria’s Salaries and Wages Commission.

Investigation showed that Mr. Oyewole  refunded N2.5 million on December 6 from the illegal allowances he allegedly collected to finance his daughter’s wedding. Four other staff  of the university also refunded a total of N4 million from similar illegal allowances.

A spokesperson of the EFCC zonal office in Ibadan, Ayo Oyewole, confirmed that some money was returned by suspects in the matter.

“The Commission will ensure that everybody who benefited from the illegal allowances return whatever they collected to the coffers of the university,” he said.

The monies returned so far are, however, a far cry from the N800 million that the EFCC says Mr. Oyewole and others mismanaged.

The university’s spokesperson, Emi Alawode, declined comment saying the matter was already in court.

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Vice Chancellor, who sacked whistleblowers, arrested for fraud.

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The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Olusola Oyewole, who suspended and later sacked three whistleblowers, has been arrested.

 

A source at the anti-graft commission, EFCC, told the News Agency of Nigeria, on Wednesday in Abuja that Mr. Oyewole was arrested for alleged fraud.

 

According to the source, the Vice Chancellor will be arraigned in court on Friday.

 

When contacted, the spokesman of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, declined comment on the issue.

 

“I don’t have that information yet,” he said.

 

Mr. Oyewole was invited by the commission about two months ago following allegations of financial fraud in a petition by some university staff, members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU.

 

PREMIUM TIMES reported how Lasun Somoye, Abdulsalaam Sobbor and Bimbo Bankole, were suspended by the university and later sacked by its governing council. The petitioners had written to the EFCC, accusing the vice chancellor and the institution’s pro-chancellor of fraud.

 

Eighteen other workers were also sacked by the university which claimed they were dismissed for stealing the institution’s property.

 

The sack has been condemned by a lot of Nigerians with a civic group, CSNAC asking the Nigeria Human Rights Commission to intervene.

EFCC Quizzes University Vice-Chancellor For Alleged Corruption

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The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Olusola Oyewole, has been invited for questioning by the anti-graft commission, EFCC.

Mr. Oyewole and the institution’s bursar, Moses Ilesanmi, were invited for questioning based on allegations of corruption levelled against them.

The duo are to appear at the EFCC’s Zonal Office in Ibadan on August 17  by 10:00 a.m., according to an invitation letter signed by Akaninyewa Ezima.

“The office is currently investigating an alleged case of corruption and abuse of office involving your institution,” the EFCC invitation letter obtained reads.

The university officials were told to come along with certified true copies of documents including those of capital projects executed in their tenure.

While Mr. Oyewole, a Professor of Food Science and Technology, was appointed in 2012, Mr. Ilesanmi was appointed in September 2011 and is scheduled to leave office in a month.

The EFCC is also investigating payments made by the university to the governing council of the institution led by a former senator, Adeseye Ogunlewe.

The invited officials were asked to come with records of all payments made to Mr. Ogunlewe and other members of the governing council since their appointment in 2013.

Mr. Ogunlewe, who represented Lagos State in the Senate, was appointed pro-chancellor of the university by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

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The VC Federal University Dutsin-Ma Should Go..?

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Professor James O. I. Ayatse the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University Dutsin-ma (FUDMA) situated in Dutsin-ma Local Government of Katsina State is in the news again -and once again- for the wrong reason. The institution he is heading as reported by Daily Trust “has how become a safe heaven for many university lecturers who were fired by their former employers on disciplinary grounds”. 
FUDMA, under the leadership of this Vice Chancellor (VC) had employed at least three (3) staff even when the institution had been notified officially by their former places of work about their disengagement on purely disciplinary grounds. The staff re-employed by the University include a professor from ABU, Zaria who was sacked after he was found guilty of enticing a married woman by a Jigawa State Chief Magistrate’s Court. Others include another professor and a Phd holder who lost their previous jobs over various misconducts. The later is currently the Head Of Department of English in the institution!
But long before then, last year precisely, SUNDAY TRUST has reported a ‘serious’ recruitment scandal that embroiled the newly established University. Then, among other things, it was reported that there is a great imbalance in the composition of the University’s community work force as it does not reflect the University’s catchment area.
For instance, according to the then report, only 3 out of the dozens management team of the university were from the north-west zone as a whole! Katsina State indigenes are taking the lead in the total work force only on paper as the strategic posts shows the contrary. These actions of cause are against the spirit of the federal character principle as well as the universities catchment area policy. As expected, it drew the attention of the house of representative committee on education who visited the university to see things for themselves and later queried the VC over the illegal miss doings. The committee also demanded explanation as to how -or rather why- Benue State (which is north-central and not a catchment area) has more indigenes working in the university that Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara states combine.
No wonder, while the managements of the other Universities established same time with the FUDMA are busy working tirelessly to build a strong institution that can compete favorably with their counterparts in the country, the one in my state has been lagging behind in almost all aspects. Thanks to the sentiments and nepotism employed in the school by her VC.
Now, we are calling for the FUDMA’s Vice chancellor to please stop embracing us. Katsina is known to be a home learning and a State full of intellectuals that stand tall nationally. Back to the colonial era, Katsina was a symbol of education as it accomodated the first Northern elementary School in which Ahmadu Bello Sardauna of Sokoto and many others passes through.
We are also calling on the relevant authorities and stakeholders to come to our rescue. This VC is doing more harm than good to the state and the nation is general. We are calling for a thorough investigation of the issue and proper handling of the saga. But before then, we are calling for him to go honorably.
Mustapha Saddiq wrote from Batagarawa, Katsina State.
Email: mustyfantastic77@yahoo.com