‘ASUU Members Are 419’- Unilorin Reacts To Union’s Petition To EFCC

Management of the University of Ilorin,
UNILORIN, has denied allegations of fraud
leveled against its Vice Chancellor (VC), Prof.
AbdulGaniyu Ambali and his predecessor,
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, by the Academic Staff
Union of Universities, ASUU.

Recall that ASUU last Thursday petitioned the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) Ibadan Zonal office, alleging over N2
billion fraud against Oloyede and Ambali.
Reacting, Oloyede, the current Registrar, Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB),
dismissed the claims, adding that Satan was
using ASUU against him.
Rising in defence of the duo, UNILORIN in a
statement yesterday described the allegations
as “infantile lies, largely empty and merely
rehearsed to make it look real”.
The institution stated that those behind the
petition were “enemies of progress who are
aghast at the pace of progress being recorded
by the university daily”.
The statement by UNILORIN’s Head of
Corporate Affairs, Kunle Akogun, said there
was nothing new in the allegations.
He noted that,
Akogun added that the clarification had since
guided the management’s action and the
deductions were being credited to the Pension
Fund Administrators’ (PFA) accounts as and
when due, till the government started
deducting from source.
Akogun, who labelled the petitioners
“disgruntled elements” and “remnants of the
notorious 419,” stressed that “their activities
within the last one year had been targeted at
disrupting the university’s uninterrupted
academic calendar.”
He urged the EFCC to discountenance the
petition, noting that , “we are certain that the
anti-graft agency will duly consign it to where
it rightly belongs: the trash can.”
 the Joint
Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB)”.
“And, of course, no one took
them seriously, as even President
Muhammadu Buhari is not
unaware of the due diligence
credentials of the successive
administrations of the University
of Ilorin.
“What the administration of
Prof. Oloyede did was what the
law and ICPC directed all
universities to do: that instead of
the 7.5 per cent being hitherto
deducted from the basic salary
of workers, the deduction ought
to have been from the gross
emolument.”
“ ”
“It is also a fallacy to allege that
the university’s management did
not carry the unions along in all
these. The truth is that
management met with the unions
on the new development and all
parties agreed that the PFAs
should be credited the full 7.5 per
cent.
“It was the initial under-
deduction that was spread for
payment over a 24-month period.
This had since been concluded a
couple of years ago”.
“ ”
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