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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates  Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   OAU crisis: ASUU calls for judicial probe By Gbenga Olarinoye Tuesday, November 16, 2004 OSOGBO— THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, chapter,  has called on the Federal Government to set up a judicial panel to probe the recent crisis that  engulfed the institution. Addressing journalists at the university campus, on Monday, Chairman of ASUU, OAU chapter, Dr  Herbert Illo, said it behoved the Federal Government to set up a judicial panel that would look  at the immediate and remote causes of the crisis. Illo, who absolved members of the union of complicity in the crisis, alleged that the leadership  style of the university’s vice chancellor, Prof Roger Makanjuola, was responsible for the crisis. He said ASUU of the university, had on several occasions, advised the v-c against engaging  students in physical combats, adding that the recent crisis that witnessed the battering of the  v-c could have been avoided if he had heeded security advice. According to Illo, it was unfortunate that the university had witnessed several crises during the  tenure of Makanjuola, adding that it would be wrong if the death of an undergraduate, who lost  his life during the crisis, was not probed. The chairman said, “ It is wrong for the vice chancellor to set up a panel to probe an incident,  which he was involved in. An independent judicial probe should be put in place instead. The fate  of those allegedly involved in the crisis is predetermined. “ It is wrong to say that we incited the students to riot. The students are not incapable of  thinking. They see what is going on in the university and they think it  could affect their  future. When you talk of incitement; the action must occur immediately after the incitement. But  in this case, the action resulting from the incitement occurred over 24 hours later. It is on  record that the v-c also spoke with the students before the crisis.” Commenting on the issue, the Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr Segun Afolabi, said  it had come to the notice of the authorities that some lecturers fuelled the students’ attack on  Makanjuola.   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact  | Advert Rates © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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