The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), university of Abuja branch, has warned lecturers to disengage themselves from immoral acts that can be termed as unethical.
The Chairman of the branch, Dr Kassim Umaru, who was reacting to the recent sack of two professors of the university of Abuja over alleged inappropriate relationships with some female students of the institution said the Union will never support any act of immorality.
“So people should disengage themselves from immoral acts that can be termed as unethical because the union has never and will never support any act of immorality in the university.”
According to recent report, that the authorrities of the institution sacked Prof. Adeniji Adedayo Abiodun and Prof Agaptus Buzo-Chibuzo Orji while demoting Dr Robert Dajal from Associate Professor to Senior Lecturer, and Mr Gana Emmanuel Sunday from Lecturer 1 to Assistant Lecturer on issues bordering on sexual engagement and falsification of academic records respectively.
Umaru said the Professors’ appointment were terminated but not sacked or dismissed as reported by the media. “It was not sack but termination of appointment. The difference is that a staff appointment can be terminated but he shall be entitled to claim his retirement benefits and gratuities but in a situation where a staff is dismissed or sacked he will forfeit all his benefits and entitlement. In this case, the staff appointment were terminated.”
He explained that amid reports the lecturers were sacked for sexual scandal it was not true. “It was not sex for grade, rather it was a falsification of academic records and with other certain influence with some kinds of immoral relationships but we cannot term that sex for grade but because the attitude of the professors is unacceptable to the university and Union so therefore, their appointments were terminated.”
Umaru noted that as a union, they will always do their job diligently as being required and follow the law.
