Comrade Chinedu Ihejirika, the chairman of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has been sacked.
Ihejirika’s sack was revealed on Friday, August 11, in Owerri by the acting chairman of the union, Comrade Frank Ojiako.
Ihejirika, among other allegations, was accused of “failure to present financial reports to the congress for almost two years as against the constitutional stipulation of quarterly presentation.”
The statement read out by Ojiako revealed further:
“The treasurer of the union is the principal signatory to the ASUU FUTO bank accounts; it is a constitutional requirement that in the unforeseen absence of the treasurer, congress should be convened to elect a new treasurer.
“The chairperson of the suspended exco has been unable to conduct an election to fill the vacant position of the office treasurer of the union who has been on a leave of absence to the United States for the past one year.
“In order to restore normalcy and safeguard our common patrimony, it, therefore, became necessary that the ASUU exco, as then constituted, should be constitutionally jettisoned, having outlived its usefulness.
“A congress was contravened, the lacklustre exco unanimously suspended, and a new exco was appointed on an interim basis.
“On our part, the acting executive has accepted their recommendations and are very desirous of peace in our highly revered citadel.”
