participants of Senior workforce affiliation of Nigerian Universities, Non-academic body of workers Union of Universities and national association of academic Technologists of the university had accused Mr. Daramola of corruption and vowed to preserve the university locked
for so long as he remained in workplace.
even as persevering with their protest on Wednesday, the unions insisted that the vice chancellor and the bursar must no longer stay in workplace even as the financial and monetary Crimes commission performed its investigations on allegations of fraud in opposition to them.
The employees commenced the protest on October 6, following the invitation of Mr. Daramola with the aid of the anti-graft agency wherein he replied questions about allegations of misappropriation of finances.
decided to disrupt all activities inside the college, the protesting unions shut the gates into the college on Friday, growing commotion within the college surroundings.
The deployment of police officers to the organization brought the scenario below manipulate.
FUTA's Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Olatunde Arayela, who spoke to reporters on Tuesday, stated the unions' call for became beside the point as the vice chancellor remained innocent till demonstrated otherwise.
He also defined the allegations as spurious and a manufactured from incorrect information.
Mr. Arayela stated the employees had a grouse with the management based on the implementation of the authorities policy on possession of the college's workforce number one faculty.
however the Chairman of SSANU, FUTA branch, Dele Durojaiye, speakme on behalf of the employees on Wednesday, said the employees might now not relent of their protest until the VC stepped aside.
"FUTA management went on air the day before today telling the entire global that we were agitating because of the FUTA number one school personnel that turned into disengaged from the faculty and that we have been requesting for cash," he said.
"I cope with you to let the whole of Nigeria recognize that we are not requesting any cash from the university control, we aren't protesting because of the number one faculty teachers that were disengaged. All they said were baseless lies."
Mr. Durojaiye said the unions had petitioned the EFCC on the fraud and corrupt practices taking place in the university for which the VC become invited for thinking.
"What we're announcing is, the moment you're being investigated by means of the anti-graft organisation, you must step apart and we want authorities to dissolve the council, the coucil is similarly corrupt," he stated.
"We also are telling authorities that no longer until Prof. Biyi Daramola is eliminated, this college may be below lock and key. We don't care if it takes greater than 3 months."
in keeping with him, the unions had been by their motion joining the anti-corruption combat of the present administration.
"since the Vice Chancellor and the Bursar are currently being investigated by means of the EFCC, the practice on this college is that an officer under investigation be located on suspension pending the dedication of the allegations," he argued.
"on this note, we resolved that both the VC and the Bursar be relived of their positions with instant impact.
"That an audit group be installation by using the Federal government to probe the account of the college from 2012 to date.
"That the governing council of the Federal college of technology, Akure be dissolved with on the spot effect.
"that a visitation panel be constituted to look into the strolling of the university within the recent past."
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