The way the Vice Chancellors were selected for the twelve new Nigerian universities that were established about six years ago was something unprecedented in the history of university administration--and it was also widely condemned. The new Vice Chancellor for one of the universities, Federal University, Dutsinma, Professor Haruna Kaita, was appointed in February 2016. The normal process for appointment of Vice Chancellors is first to advertise the vacancy. Qualified and shortlisted candidates are then screened by a Council Committee, which sends the three recommended candidates to the general council.

The Council then ratifies the committee recommendation and the list is then forwarded to the President for the appointment of one of the three. This process was not adhered to.

In the case of Federal University Dutsinma, the appointment was made straight from Abuja without due process. Commenting on the anomaly, President Muhammed Buhari, said the government would make amends, but the dubious act was never reversed.

It is a calamity that an indigene of Katsina State was made the Vice Chancellor of Federal University Dutsinma, Katsina State, unlike the remaining new universities that have non-indigenes as Vice Chancellors. Even the constitution of the governing council is skewed:

Dr Maraliyya Zayyan from Katsina State is the Chairperson of Governing Council

The first victim of the scheme was the university Bursar who was duly appointed by the Federal Ministry of Education. He was terminated within five weeks of the Vice Chancellor’s assumption of duty for no cogent reason. His crime, the real reason for his termination, is his religion and state of origin-as a Christian from Kogi State.

The Bursar’s name-Mr Momohjimoh Sadiq-sounds Muslim but he is a Christian. He was promptly replaced with an officer from Katsina State as Acting Bursar. The other appointees soon followed:

Dr Babangida U. Dangani -Katsina State -Chief Librarian

Mr A.D Kankia -Katsina State -Registrar (recently appointed)

Prof. Johnson Fatokun -Oyo State -DVC

Prof. A. Bichi -Kano State -DVC

The Katsina mafia should have been satisfied having captured the key positions. However, they have descended heavily on the staff, intent on sending away the infidels (non-indigenes and Christians) in order to ‘sanitise’ the school. I understand this agenda is not just the Vice Chancellor’s baby project. Some powerful people in Katsina, the Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, and in Abuja are behind him insisting that the ethno-religious cleansing is a task that must be urgently done.

Some months ago the Vice Chancellor, in agreement with the inner caucus members of governing council of the university, set up the Staff Audit Committee to conclude the ethno-religious cleansing. The membership of the committee is suspect:

Hon. Emmanuel Omah -external member of council from Rivers State -Chairman of committee

Capt. Bala Jibrin -external member of council from Kano State -member

Dr Rabiu Shatsari -external member of council l from Bauchi State -member

Dr Lawal Saulawa -a lecturer from Katsina State -member

Dr Aliyu Mamman -a lecturer from Katsina state -member

The chairman of the committee is a card-carrying member of All Progressive Congress (APC) who has lost the ability to objectively reflect on the events in the University. He is out to carry out the agenda of flushing out qualified lecturers that the former Vice Chancellor, Professor James Ayatse, who had successfully served as Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Agriculture, painstakingly employed.

A tribalist, Idris Ahmed who retired as a Registrar from ABU Zaria was co-opted to advise the committee on how to go about its assignment. He was used as a tool for northernisation of ABU, Zaria when he served as Registrar. Even before the committee completed its assignment, heads began to roll. Technicians, middle level officers have been sent packing. All of them are non-indigene Christians. All these are happening against the background that the new University is understaffed and may not meet the soon-to-be-conducted accreditation requirements.

Those whose appointments have been terminated so far include:

1. Mr. Samter: Maths Dept (from Benue State) - recently completed M.Sc from the UK

2. Mr. Orits Mimke (Delta State): Forestry Dept - soon to finish PhD from UK

3. Mr. John Ogbodo (Benue State): Forestry Dept - On his PhD

4. Mr Osuagu (Imo State): Accounting Dept -On his PhD

5. Dr. David Yongo (Benue State) History Dept -recently completed PhD

6. Dr Q. Amua -he was sponsored by the UK for bench work while doing his PhD in Nigeria. Recently defended PhD

7. Mr A. Zack -He has not defended PhD 6 & 7 Tetfund grant to travel but money was not released on time. So they borrowed money to go. They have since come back. Now money from Tetfund has come, but the VC is not refunding the money to the staff. He wants to terminate their appointments and spends the money. He gave them a letter to go to ICPC with their account details.

8. Dr Richard -President of staff cooperative society, was asked to go to ICPC with his account details. There is no basis for this action.

Appointments of 7 contract staff (all Christian Southerners) have been terminated. Idris Ahmed, it is said, advised that the university is overstaffed and should be pruned. But how come it is non-indigene Christians that are being sent away from a federal university? Can it be true that the new university is over staffed? How come they are planning to advertise positions that are begging to be filled? Why it is that none of the indigenes are affected? Are the touchable and the untouchables not Nigerians?

Many Katsina indigenes-academic and non-academic staff are saucy, many play truancy, but they are accommodated.

The list of those to be terminated is very long, about a quarter of the staff stand to lose their jobs. The Vice Chancellor is not sending away at once in order not to attract attention. They release a couple of letters a week. By this, they stress the staff as there is fear, which is palpable because no one knows who is next. But the indigenes and Northern Muslims move about with no care in the world.

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not in place. By convention, the staff of new universities are not to unionise for four years after which they are allowed to join for two years as observers before full membership. Now that they are ripe to join as an observer, no one dares to make the move. Those who are being terminated are leaving without protest while ASUU is not there to protect any staff.

Typical of northern university administration, one finds the university leadership as unserious. Lectures are cancelled for the first two hours of every Thursday to allow all academic and non-academic members of staff partake in environmental sanitation. This results in loss of academic hours for an under staff institution struggling for accreditation of many courses and which harbour enough employees who are paid to clean the environment.

Something must be done to arrest the situation. Government should intervene; that is the only sincere thing to be done.



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Is that not Bubu's home state.?

This report needs to be investigated .

Lalasticlala.. ..Push it up so that Buhari can see how much he has inspired nepotism

Let all the federal university in the south also terminate the contract of all northerners working in their school....simple

Chai see Jonathan's legacy in d north still zombies won't give him some credit

wetin concern me with the dirty ass washing people and their institutions.

The same process of favoritism that brought Them in is also removing them.

Ohh for God'sake enough of the ethnic trash.
This thing is addictive oh.

OP please i need you to do a research on Nsukka and tell me how many Norther Muslims we have in the university. Please i beg you, be objective.
No insults pls..just a question

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Okay

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If we say it, they will say we are tribalists! We all know that to cleanse Nigeria of "infidels" is a so called task that must be done only in their dreams! God bless Nigeria!

Oh men this. Really bleeped up.....am beginning to hate this northern guys sef. No matter how hard you try to see good in them, their. Faults still. Yapa

Dear Admin. If u bar me from this blog again for saying my mind, I will take u to court. There is freedom of speech in Nigeria.U can take the blog off the internet or relocate to North Korea.

I have nothing to say, just want to sleep and forget about Nigeria's problems they are too many

The one Nigeria our Yoruba brodas soo vigorously campaign for and defend, little do they know that a semi -literate Fulani man is smarter than them with all their sophistication.
Travelling is a far better education than many books would provide.
Come up north and see the reality.

We hv a bigot as president so we understand

I see the hypocritical bigots, as usual, already shamelessly masturbating, groaning and crying like little children all over the thread.
While they re never condemned for their own bigotry and ethnic discrimination rampant in their lands they delightfully enjoy to concoct and highlight non-existing stories, in a desperate bid to paint northerners for what they re not.
My sisters husband who is a non-Muslim southerner working in that very university has never had any reason to complain of any discrimination.
I served as a youth corper in the eastern part of the country and was a regular at their universities and not for once did I ever come across a northerner holding any key position in any of the universities in the SE. As a SS all tru my days in the university I never came across a lectural frm northern extraction let alone one holding any key positions.
Our southern institutions re dominated by our own pple and evrbdy seems satisfied with this tradition.
Why all these unnecessary campaign of hate against the north?
Why do we seem sooooo desperately eager to stoking and inciting hate agAinst the north?
The other day it was CAN crying over John Kerry's visit to the sultan.
Yesterday it was FFK wailing over Mark Zukerberg's attempt to simply patronise the north, a practice common amongst visiting foreign notables.
When re we gonna stop all this unnecessary attempt to create war amongst ourselves?
Well, I know fools, as usual, will easily buy into this and further worsen the state of their already pained souls.
We shud stop using our own hands to deaden our souls.

How many northern muslims can you find in the southern Universities? Sack them all.

vikkeee:
Oh men this. Really bleeped up.....am beginning to hate this northern guys sef. No matter how hard you try to see good in them, their. Faults still. Yapa

this are the reasons behind avengers and agitations.

How many katsina state indigenes are principal officers inUNILAG
How many kano state indigenes are principal officers in UI
How many sokoto state indigenes are lecturers in UNIPORT
DO ME I DO YOU

'Ewu' means 'goat'.

FxDuke:
this are the reasons behind avengers and agitations.

To kill the northerners abi what?

Na wa oooh.....this story has got me thinking....how will he sack them like that? Are they not confirmed staff of the university? No disciplinary panel/ No case against them? How?

How is that relevant to the issue on ground?

TeamSimple:
OP please i need you to do a research on Nsukka and tell me how many Norther Muslims we have in the university. Please i beg you, be objective.
No insults pls..just a question

walemoney007:
Let all the federal university also terminate the contract of all northerners working in their school....simple

it wont happen because the Southerners and Christians are never united. They dont care about their brethren. Instead they bask in the schadenfreude.

Sometimes when you are almost dying for this country..then u read news like this and u got no better Choice than to give up ur belief in one Nigeria.

what kind of report is this?
coming from sahara reporters. I am very disappointed. it is very clear that the reporter have an evil intention. why is he trying to insight some set of people against the other.

if this kind of thing should continue, then I support the bill that seek prosecution for people that post such thing in the media.

even if there is an iota of truth in the report, the reporter is not in any way professional about writing and publishing it.

Abokii8:
How many northern muslims can you find in the southern Universities? Sack them all.

And how many educated northerners want to take up teaching jobs? They rather get enlisted into government jobs where they can steal public funds.

daretodiffer:
How is that relevant to the issue on ground?

Answer my question if you can,and if you cant allow someone else to.