The Vice-Chancellor of Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), Port Harcourt,Prof. Barineme Fakae, last Friday said 100 lecturers, among them visiting professors, would be recruited from overseas.

He made the disclosure in Port Harcourt at a forum with newsmen.

Fakae said Governor Chibuike Amaechi had three years ago approved the employment of more lecturers,adding that 73 had already been employed.

“We have no cause to keep the students without lecturing them; we must move ahead,” he said.

He said the candidates had been subjected to strict scrutiny in line with the institution’s “quality assurance” policy.

“He or she that must be a lecturer must live above board,” he added.

Fakae said the lecturers were expected to submit their marking scheme and marked scripts together to know how a student scored so high or so low marks.

He added that the quality assurance was to ensure that the students were properly graded while the university graduated the right students.

According to him, the university’s chapter of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not on strike.

“95 per cent of committed lecturers are lecturing; the university is not on strike, except that few lecturers have decided to stay away from work,” Fakae said

He said though the five per cent of the lecturers who stayed out of classrooms were not being replaced, warning that “nobody could hold the university to ransom”

The Vice Chancellor insisted on enforcing the Federal Government’s policy of “no work, no pay” for striking lecturers.