CRUTECH Lecturers Protest Non-Appointment Of VC, Return Students’ Scripts

Lecturers in the Cross River State University of Technology (CRUTECH) have protested the non-appointment of a Vice Chancellor (VC) in the institution.
Already, the lecturers have returned all students’ exam scripts to the VC’s office until a new Acting VC was appointed. Scripts also included the final year students and they would not be marked if the Government fails to follow due process, it waw gathered.
The lecturers, who vowed that they will cripple academic activities in the institution if due process was not followed in appointing a new Vice Chancellor for the institution expressed regret the action of the Chancellor of the University.
Briefing newsmen in Calabar, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), Cross River University of Technology, CRUTECH Chapter, Emmanuel Ettah said the time of the current Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Akon Monday Joshua, came to an end on Thursday, November 7, 2019.
He said that five names were submitted by the institution’s Governing Council to the Governor Ben Ayade, who is visitor to the institution, disclosed that there was a grand plot to appoint an Acting Vice Chancellor outside the 5 names submitted to Governor Ben Ayade.
“On Thursday, 7 November, 2019, will be 6 months since the acting VC,
Prof. Akon Monday Joshua was appointed to pilot the affairs of the
University. Before then, the counsel was not constituted. But a month ago, the council was newly constituted led by Dr. Emily Inyang.
“The Government appointees, Senate elected members, addmission elected members and convocation elected members are the people that constituted the Governing Council”, he stated.

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