UNICAL bursar suspended
The bursar of the University of Calabar, Mr Peter Agi, was Monday
suspended by the management of the institution over allegations of fraud
among other accusations.
A letter to Agi, signed by the Registrar of the institution, Moses
Abang, obtained by The Nation in Calabar Monday read, “In an Emergency
Meeting of Management held today, August 22, 2016, Management considered
recent developments on campus especially your arrest by the Nigeria
Police vide letter no.
AB:3621/CRS/DFA/VOL.T/123 of August 17, 2016 on
allegations of fraud, forgery and threat to life, it has become
imperative that you step aside as Bursar and clear yourself of these
allegations.
“Furthermore, Management observed that you have been impersonating
the Vice Chancellor on the CBN e-payment platform by making final
approvals and payments, a duty that is the responsibility of the Vice
Chancellor who is the Chief Accounting Officer of the University.
Bank
transactions and alerts are still being forwarded to the immediate past
Vice Chancellor, Prof. James Epoke without the Vice Chancellor’s
knowledge.
“Again, you absented yourself from office without requesting any of
your Deputies to act for you, thus creating a vacuum in the
administration of the Bursary. Rather, in a circular of 18th August,
2016, you requested members of the University community who need you
for official business to do so by reaching you on your phone number.
This is absurd and not acceptable anywhere.
“To further compound matters, you have as well:(1) Deliberately
orchestrated measures aimed at ensuring that the University loses
accreditation of its Medical Programmes by refusing to purchase buses
for the Departments of Public Health and Community Medicine.
“This is a major requirement for
accreditation and Council had directed you several times on this yet you
bluntly refused to comply.
(2) Deliberately refused to purchase
official car for the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Administration) 8 months
after he was appointed into office. You have ignored several Council
and Management directives on this.
(3) Deliberately refused to purchase
official car for the Dean of Graduate School even when the Graduate
School designed measures to internally generate revenue for this
purpose.
“You have consistently ignored Management’s directives with
impunity.
(4) Bluntly refused to pay TETFUND contractors who have
successfully executed jobs and rendered services to the University even
when such contractors have been cleared for payments.
The consequence of
this is that while other Universities are already making progress and
accessing the 2015 allocation, the University of Calabar cannot exhaust
the 2013 allocation to qualify for the next tranche.
(5) Illegally
mobilized and brought into campus a group of non-staff/students
including suspected cultists, some of whom have been charged to court.
“These your “supporters” violently molested staff and beat up
Journalists who were at the scene of the incident and even damaged their
camera (as stated in the security report and reported in the
media).
(6) Unilaterally granted press interview on matters relating to
the University without clearance from appropriate
authorities.
(7) Callously and with utter disregard of Vice Chancellor’s
directives by refusing to pay staff entitlements even when due process
have been followed before approval.
(8) You were issued a query on
August 17, 2016 Ref. UC/R.45A to offer explanation on your
misdeeds on Campus on Monday, August 15, 2016.
When your staff told you
that you have a mail, you requested for the content of the mail to be
read to you.
“Thereafter, you requested for the letter to be brought to you.
You
read the letter and returned it through the same staff to your office
and directed that they should inform whoever cares that they could not
deliver the mail to you.
As a follow up you left definite instruction
with the security man in your house not to receive any mail meant for
you. As a consequence, the other copy mailed to you by courier was
rejected by your gatemen.
“These actions of yours are a clear manifestation of an orchestrated
and deliberate design to bring to ridicule, the image of the University
of Calabar and indeed to cripple its progress as an institution.
Management cannot continue to close its eyes on these misdeeds and allow
the University to crumble.
“Management has therefore resolved that you should be placed on
suspension.
You are therefore suspended as Bursar of the University of
Calabar with effect from Monday, August 22, 2016. You are to handover
immediately to Mrs. Atim Mensah who is the most senior Deputy Bursar
while Mr Joseph Odum is to take over the previous duties covered by
Mrs Mensah. By this letter of suspension, Council is being briefed
accordingly.”
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