Professor David Kolo of the Ahmadu
Bello University (ABU) Zaria has
been dismissed from the institution
for sexually harassing one of his
female students, Weekly Trust
exclusively reports.
This followed the endorsement of
the recommendation of a disciplinary
committee set up to investigate
Professor Kolo of ABU’s faculty of
education by the governing council
of the university.
Kolo was earlier sentenced to two
months imprisonment by a court in
Jigawa State, after he was found
guilty of attempting to force his
female student to accept his sex
advances. The student, who is a
married woman, had through her
husband informed security agents.
An impeccable source, close to the
ABU’s governing council, said the
council had on Wednesday, during
its meeting, approved the dismissal
of the professor.
“You know the professor was queried
by the university authorities but he
refused to answer the query. He also
refused to honour the invitation of
the disciplinary committee that was
set up to investigate the issue. The
committee was left with no option
than to present its report to the
governing council after
investigation”, the source told
Weekly Trust.
“The governing council, which is the
body that is vested with powers of
employing and dismissing staff,
considered the report and approved
the dismissal of the professor. We
hope this would serve as deterrence
to other staff that may want to
engage in such acts of indiscipline,”
it added.
In his reaction to the whole episode,
the chairman of ABU-ASUU, Dr.
Muhammad Kabir Aliyu, said ASUU is
a responsible organization, and as
such it frowns at any act that would
demean the association.
“I heard about the setting up of the
council committee and the invitation
extended to the Professor, but I am
not a member. We always advise our
members not to engage in acts that
would demean their character and
that of our organization. Therefore,
we are not happy with what the
Professor did. I am not in town, so, I
did not hear about the dismissal,”
Dr. Aliyu said.
Mallam Ahmad Abdullahi Kundila,
the Ag Registrar of the university,
who doubles as the secretary of
ABU’s governing council, according
to our source, was assigned by the
council to serve the Professor with
the dismissal letter.
Malam Kundila was said to be very
busy at his office with administrative
matters when Weekly Trust visited
and his mobile phone was switched
off from morning to evening of
yesterday.
But some lecturers interviewed by
our correspondent at the main
campus of the university commended
the action of the council, saying that
other officials of the university that
engage in such acts would have a
lesson to learn.http://www.weeklytrust.com.ng/index.php/top-stories/13106-abu-sacks-prof-kolo-over-sexual-harassment

Gud job..we nid 2 flush all d bad eggs frm d system


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