Council Subcommittee Report on the Review of the Expenditure of the University of Lagos since May 2017 and the Panel set up to investigate the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the library building under construction.
The meeting was to hold on 13th and 14th May 2019. Curiously and out of the blue, the Council received a letter from the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education directed the Council to stay action on the Council investigation.
“To put it mildly, this was received as a shock by the Council members. It was unusual and completely unprofessional. It was also unlawful as, under the University of Lagos Act, Council is responsible for the superintendence of the University including its finances,” a source close to the Council told THISDAY.
The source stated that Section 7(1) of the University of Lagos Act provides that: ‘Subject to the provisions of this Act relating to the Visitor, the Council shall be the governing body of the University and shall be charged with the general control and superintendence of the policy, finances and property of the University, including its relations.’
The Permanent Secretary, strangely set up a Panel of seven members of academics to investigate the Pro-chancellor who was trying to sanitise the university system.
The panel has been comprehensively discredited it could not be relied upon by the government for any purpose. A member of the panel, who also doubled as the Secretary, and who happened to be the Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Education, showed his biases by harassing every person that came to speak against the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ogundipe.
She also changed a lot of findings of the Panel especially those that indicted Prof. Ogundipe for contract splitting; frivolous expenditure by him and his cronies; and concealing the finances of the University from the Council.
