Fayemi suspends provost over controversial fumigation

Governor Fayemi has therefore constituted a seven-man panel to investigate the unfortunate incidence.

The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has suspended the Provost, College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero-Ekiti, Dr Cecilia Adebayo, pending the outcome of investigations into the circumstances that led to the hospitalisation of about 100 students of the institution after a controversial fumigation exercise.

The suspension is without prejudice to the outcome of a meeting of the College’s Governing Council slated for next week.

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The officials of the Federal Fire Services that carried out the fumigation exercise have also been directed to report back to their office in Abuja.

Governor Fayemi has therefore constituted a seven-man panel to investigate the unfortunate incidence.

The panel, which is to commence work immediately, has two weeks to carry out the investigations and report back to the governor.

Governor Fayemi, who is the Visitor to the College, empathised with all the affected students as he directed that their medical bills be taken over by the State Government in all the hospitals they are being treated.

He urged students and parents to remain calm and desist from any violent conduct capable of affecting the peace of the town and the state in general.