At the last council meeting of the governing board of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, part of our deliberations were petitions written by some aggrieved suspended appointees of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, and part of their petitions were that so many of the illegally hired temporary staff of MOUAU were still in the system and receiving salaries even as 440 others whose appointment have not been regularized due to the obvious irregularities in their appointment procedures.

In their petition they pleaded with the board to look into their problems with a view to resolving it, they admitted the irregularities in their hiring procedure but went ahead to plead with the council to consider a review with the intention of bringing back to the system those who are qualified out of the lot.  
They also went ahead to draw the attention of the council to their confrères who were hired at the same time through the same procedure but are still in the system taking salaries and enjoying other privileges as those whose appointments has been regularized and confirmed staff of the establishment.

The council therefore demanded for the schools payroll through the university bursar and discovered that 270 of such staff were in the payroll of the university and were hired within the same period as those of them suspended noting that their appointments took place towards the end of Professor Edoga’s tenure when obviously a vice chancellor designate is already in place and waiting to assume office.

But the difference in these set which made it a bit difficult to be detected alongside others was that instead of being issued with a temporary letter of appointment they were offered direct employment and issued with appointment letters confirming their employment without going through the laid down civil service procedure or their appointment contract ratified by the council as the case may be, which makes their appointment not only illegal but criminal.

It was also discovered that their names were sneaked into the payroll by the former bursar acting on orders of Prof. Edoga.

Further investigation brought us to the frightening revelation that these set of employees hired by the former Vice Chancellor of the university Prof. Edoga paid the sum of 500.000 naira to 1million naira in order to secure those illegal appointments and they are not alone in this, there are still others in this same category who are yet to be detected but we assure the university community and the general public that our ongoing investigation will certainly unearth those people and weed them out of the system as the board cannot tolerate criminality of any sort under any guise.  

Council therefore resolved to terminate forthwith all those illegal appointments while looking for the best way to resolve the suspension of the 440+ suspended temporary staff whose appointment has not been regularized but are being reviewed.

Chief Amanze Udenze
Governing Board member
MOUAU

just when some people are beginning to think that they are finally out of recession, but come to think of it, this is corruption on a more larger scale. Let thew cleaning begin in our Education Sector so that we can produce great leaders, not all this plithieficians

In life, you hear from both sides of the divide


Let the world also hear what the past VC Prof Edeoga has to say


It is on record that the last Vice Chancellor gave jobs to people who don't have connection which angered so many old staff who felt the last Vice Chancellor did not favour their wives, children, relatives and candidates.


It is on record that Prof Edeoga transformed MOUAU from an Igbo dominated University to an International University where the best brains from all part of the country where picked to work in the institution which transformed MOUAU from a village University to one of Nigeria's best University.


Before the massive sack of 700 staff, you could find large numbers of Yorubas, Edos, Ibibios, Northerners and others. But today MOUAU is dominated by Igbos.


This is not the spirit of Biafra


Biafrans don't discriminate like the Anti Edeoga forces controlling the University today

Hmmm