The management of Ambrose Ali University in Ekpoma, Edo State, AAU, has dismissed 13 faculty and non-academic staff for crimes such as age misrepresentation, financial fraud, gross misconduct, extortion, and sexual harassment.
According to Prof. Adagbonyin, the university’s acting vice-chancellor, the decision to terminate the employment of the affected staff was coming on the recommendation of the university personnel disciplinary committee, which had found them guilty of the crime.
Prof. Adagbonyin announced this when presenting the Commission’s report to the Chairman, Andrew Olotu of the city of Benin with members of the AAU Special Intervention Team on Monday.
VC announced that the affected employees were staff from the Schools of Basic Medicine, Laboratory Sciences, Nursing, Engineering, Law, and Political Science, and the former Director of the University Farm.
He said the disciplinary committee had recommended that the officials concerned are to be given a fair trial and report the criminal aspects of the offense of dismissal to the security forces.
The affected University staff included a lecturer in charge of nursing, who was dismissed after being convicted of extorting the sum of N32,000 and N52,000 respectively from a student, and a lecturer accused of sexual harassment.
