On August 12, 2020, the media delighted in accounts of the abrupt excusal of Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as agent unfamiliar priest of the college of lakes (UNILAG). Before that, the college's overseeing board headed by Wale Babalakin, a noticeable Supporter of Nigeria (SAN), had examined Ogundipe for different charges of debasement, including misappropriation and sporadic enlistment.
Somewhere in the range of 2018 and 2019, the UNILAG overseeing board shaped a board headed by Saminu Dagari, a delegate of the national government, and Eddy Omolehinwa, a bookkeeping teacher, to examine the funds, costs and spending plans of the foundation. It depended on the board's dooming report that the administering chamber eliminated Mr. Ogundipe.
Disappointed with the excusal of the Vice Chancellor, President Muhammadu Buhari set up a board drove by Tukur Sa'ad, previous bad habit chancellor of the Federal University of Technology in Minna, Niger state, to examine the emergency.
However, in a letter to Education Minister Adamu in October 2020, Sa'ad noticed that his board was restricted to checking whether Ogundipe's excusal followed fair treatment.
Serve of-Education Adamu
"The proposal that he rejoin the VC was restricted to the methodology of his excusal," Sa'ad said in the letter. "That didn't imply that he ought to be vindicated of all violations. If among the shortcomings recorded in the report the public authority accepts that he ought to be terminated, that doesn't go against our proposals".
President Buhari would later restore Ogundipe without exploring the allegations against him. Babalakin, who headed the overseeing committee that eliminated Ogundipe, surrendered in fight.
In any case, a couple of months in the wake of introducing the board report he led, Sa'ad censured Buhari's reestablishment of Ogundipe. He said that he hesitantly upheld the board's report since council individuals appeared to be one-sided toward Mr. Ogundipe against Mr. Babalakin.
The new official board report
On March 29, 2021, the central government comprised one more board of official visits, headed by Martins Agwai, previous head of the Army General Staff, to inspect the administration of UNILAG somewhere in the range of 2015 and 2019, including the dubious evacuation of Mr. Ogundipe as delegate unfamiliar pastor. .
Following a while of meticulous examination, the board drove by Agwai presented its report to the Ministry of Education, however up until this point the national government has not unveiled the panel's discoveries.
In September 2021, a few papers released a piece of the board's report blaming Mr. Ogundipe of running an extravagant obtainment extortion and dividing contracts. In any case, Sonny Echono, the then long-lasting secretary at the Ministry of Education, denied the validness of the reports, it were misleading to guarantee they. In any case, some board individuals let PREMIUM TIMES know that the spilled report was veritable.
College of Lagos, UNILAG
Since it was to some extent released last year, the Ministry of Education has kept the first duplicate of the report drove by Agwai and overlooked the opportunity of data (FOI) demand recorded by this paper. Despite everything, PREMIUM TIMES got a duplicate of the report that the national government would not disclose.
Notwithstanding, our detailing, including surveying the Agwai-drove board report that the public authority needs unpublished and addressing specialists at UNILAG and the schooling service, showed that the Buhari-drove organization is intentionally hiding the board's discoveries. to the majority.
Silly agreement grants
PREMIUM TIMES presumed that the Agwai board's report embraced the moves made against Mr. Ogundipe in 2020 by the establishment's overseeing chamber drove by Wale Babalakin, however President Buhari would overlook the suggestion of the board he had comprised.
Subsequent to looking into different advisory group reports and petitions blaming the bad habit chancellor for corporate wrongdoing, that's what the official board proclaimed "Mr. Ogundipe and his administration led a hazy organization that concealed the funds of the college from the administering committee and the vested body. by regulation to be the overseer of those funds."
The board likewise settled that Mr. Ogundipe and his group took part in different agreement dividing acts in the obtaining of labor and products for the college.
For instance, Mr. Dagari, director of the advisory group shaped by the college gathering in 2018 to audit college spending, showed up before the board headed by Agwai to introduce the report that prompted Mr. Ogundipe's underlying excusal.
The Dagari-drove board denounced Mr. Ogundipe of expenditure, without fair treatment, N112.4 million on the remodel of his authority home and the homes of the financier, Olalekan Lawal, and the enlistment center, Oladejo Azeez.
The advisory group tracked down that Mr. Ogundipe bought two authority vehicles for N52 million, spending great over the college's delicate board limit. It was likewise said that he burned through 57.9 million naira in estacodes for trips abroad.
Under the oversight of the bad habit chancellor, the college paid the amount of N2.4 million month to month to Ademola Adeleke, dignitary of understudy issues, for a long time. Ogundipe paid Adeleke from May 2017 to September 2018 for a vague reason, the Dagari-drove board said.
He was additionally blamed for burning through N57.2 million on squander the board and cleaning administrations.
"Prof. Ogundipe's guard was painstakingly considered. He didn't prevent any from getting these claims, and there doesn't have all the earmarks of being a substantial support in regulation for his guards as a whole," the Agwai board report said in parts.
Extravagant extortion, contract division
Supporting, the previous acting head of works at the college, Tunde Oloko, recorded a report before the official board denouncing Mr. Ogundipe of paying over N2 billion to project workers in overabundance of his endorsement limit and without the information on the top managerial staff. government.
"Engineer Oloko asserted that the bad habit chancellor was straightforwardly engaged with the division of the agreement and much of the time had him sign installments where there was no execution or the execution was not finished," the report says. "These claims are in opposition to the Public Procurement Law and the Fiscal Responsibility Law."
One more individual from the board laid out by the overseeing chamber, Eddy Omolehinwa, announced Mr. Ogundipe's wrongdoing as UNILAG appointee unfamiliar priest while introducing his report to the Agwai-drove advisory group.
Omolehinwa expressed that under Ogundipe, UNILAG the board planned 147 million naira for all offices in the foundation, while twofold that sum, a thought 300 million naira, was planned for cleaning administrations during a similar period.
"This straightforwardly disregards Section 7 of the University Act which gives the funds of the University to the Council," the board noted.
Preference and maltreatment of office
Depending on the declaration of one more board of trustees individual from the college's overseeing chamber, Bayo Adaralegbe, the Agwai-drove board denounced Mr. Ogundipe of distorting a screening to lean toward a competitor during the choice cycle for the post of overseer of works at the college.
Adaralegbe likewise blamed Ogundipe for attempting to get Olukemi Fadehan, the college's curator, named teacher when the organization didn't have a scholarly division of library science. Mr. Adaralegbe introduced the minutes of the board meeting where the screening was dropped in light of the fact that the score sheets were changed to help his claims, as per the board report.
"He said this occurred within the sight of Professor Ben Ogbujiafor, then, at that point, delegate bad habit chancellor of the college, Dr. Saminu Dagari, then, at that point, an individual from the Council, and two delegates of the Federal Character Commission," the board report expressed.