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NUC withdraws ESUT accreditation over 153 sacked lectures

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has withdrawn indefinitely, the accreditation of Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu over alleged disengagement of about 153 of its lecturers.

New Telegraph learnt that the affected university lecturers were sacked by ESUT authorities shortly after using them to scale through the last accreditation exercise of some of its faculties/departments.

Confirming the withdrawal of the accreditation of faculties/departments earlier given to ESUT authorities Tuesday, the Director of Information and Public Relations of the NUC, Mallam Ibrahim Yakassai, said that the NUC under the Executive Secretary, Professor Julius Okojie, frowned at a situation where some universities hired and sacked lecturers immediately after using them (lecturers) to get accreditation from the Commission.

Yakassai acknowledged that the Commission received several petitions from the dismissed lectures from the Enugu State University of Science and Technology over their alleged wrongful dismissal from service.

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“Following the series of petitions from the disengaged staff of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, the NUC on February 12, 2016 withdrew accreditation of mass communication, engineering, psychology and some other departments. The NUC cannot sit down and watch such ugly development,” he said.

In a ‘Save Our Soul letter’ sent to the NUC through their legal practitioner, B. N Ugwu, which was made available to New Telegraph, the affected lecturers, which cut across all departments in the institution, had alleged they were intimidated, and unlawfully disengaged by the university authorities.

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