Alleged extortion: FUOYE suspends deputy dean, SUG President

The absorption of Federal University Oye-Ekiti, FUOYE, has suspended 2 elder officials and a person of the institution’s students’ union.

FUOYE said the individuals were suspended for taking wealth from students illegally.

Mufutau Ibrahim, the university’s registrar, named the officials who were affected to see Olanrewaju Ogunjobi, Director of the Directorate for Educational Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Banji Rildwan Olaleye, Deputy Dean of Student Affairs and Support Services, and James Iyanuoluwa Adio, President of the Students’ Union Government, SUG.

In a statement, the registrar said that Ogunjobi and Olaleye were accused of collecting N1,000 from each pupil successful the archetypal twelvemonth of study.

The taxation was said to beryllium for hands-on classes organized by the directorate.

Ibrahim said successful a connection that, successful bid to beryllium just and travel the rules of earthy justice, the absorption acceptable up a committee to analyse the claims.

“The committee recovered that Ogunjobi is said to person authorized and collected 1 1000 naira from each affected pupil without involving the senate, management, oregon pursuing the university’s existing rules that each payments indispensable beryllium made done the bursary and with management’s approval.

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