We won’t tolerate Edoga in our community…. Ikwuano/Umuahia consultative forum

Youths under the aegis of Ikwuano/Umuahia consultative forum has called on the federal government not to appoint the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, Professor Hillary Edoga as an Executive Director in the Root Crop Research Institute Umudike as applied for by him.

The youths numbering over 100 and chanting solidarity songs stormed the country home of an APC stalwart and board member of MOUAU Chief Amanze Udenze, demanding that the federal government should not give Prof. Hillary Edoga the opportunity of becoming the Executive Director at National Root Crop Research Institute Umudike.

 According to the spokesman of the group, Engineer Kelechi Uzoukwu, who spoke on behalf of the group decried the huge rot Prof Francis Edoga left behind as MOUAU V.C which the new Vice Chancellor Prof. Francis Otunta has been trying to clean, the youths said that returning Prof. Edoga to the NRCRI Umudike may mean the death of the institution, he said the institution may not stand the test of corruption and immorality that Prof. Edoga may introduce to the institute as he did in MOUAU, speaking further the leader of the group said, the former VC should rather proceed on the sabbatical leave offered him by the board of MOUAU so as to give way for proper and full scale investigation into his activities while in MOUAU as the vice chancellor rather than seeking for a new appointment, the youths said that Prof. Edoga won’t be tolerated within their community any more after seeing the level of corruption, destruction and immorality he introduced into Michael Okpara university of Agriculture Umudike.

They said that they won’t allow a man with such a low moral pedigree as Prof. Hillary Edoga to continue with his negative exploits within Ikwuano/Umuahia, he went further to narrate how the youths in his own community in Enugu state brought down a monument of himself which he erected at the market square questioning the moral authority upon which he should place such a statue of himself there, given his low moral pedigree.

They questioned why he should be allowed by the university authorities to be coming to school as a lecturer with a retinue of police guards and carving out a personal edifice within the University as his office.

They asked Chief Amanze to use his position to inform the presidency and the MOUAU governing board to ensure that Dr. Edoga is not only stopped from being appointed the Executive Director in the National Root Crop Research institute Umudike, but that he should be thoroughly probed for all the atrocities committed during his years in MOUAU and punished accordingly, Engr Uzoukwu said he can’t find a reason as to why Dr. Edoga won’t proceed on his compulsory sabbatical leave, if not for the reasons of blocking and covering up series of atrocities he committed as VC, the group handed over the written petition to Chief Amanze who in his response promised to take the issues raised to necessary quarters, he also told them that their demands will be met once it is justified and assured them that the university council as presently constituted cannot fold its arms and watch any one destroy the institution no matter how highly placed or connected that individual may be, he informed them that the present governing council of the university is looking into all the allegations brought forward by some people against the former V.C and will do the necessary as soon they round up with their investigations, he also said that the EFCC is at the moment investigating some allegations of financial misappropriation and corruption against the former Vice Chancellor and therefore advised the youths to go home, while assuring them that their concerns has been noted and will be taken seriously.

The Man who created Jobs for many who never had connection

Unlike the Anti Edeoga forces that took away about 700 jobs in order to replace them with their own people


God bless Edeoga the man who gave hope to the hopeless unlike those now in power who have rendered about 700 staff jobless.