Unionists and plans to discredit varsity

We note with concern the activities of some sponsored Nigerians who are bent on discrediting the Vice Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, Professor Vincent Tenebe and his management team. More worrisome to our group is the emergence of a group under the auspices of NOUN Congress of Staff and Students making  […]

We note with concern the activities of some sponsored Nigerians who are bent on discrediting the Vice Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, Professor Vincent Tenebe and his management team.
More worrisome to our group is the emergence of a group under the auspices of NOUN Congress of Staff and Students making  moves to extort, blackmail and intimidate the Vice Chancellor, Professor Vincent  Tenebe and his management team into succumbing to funding  union activities where these elements would be able to steal under the guise of unionization.
We have discovered that many Universities Vice Chancellors who are afraid of having their reputation being tarnished have fallen prey to these unscrupulous elements.
Since some professors are afraid of fighting back, it is  imperative that we exhibit  some amount of social justice, decorum and morality in our engagements with public servants as not to bring the structure of corporate governance into disrepute before the rest of the world.
There is also the need for the President to come to their rescue before overzealous citizens take advantage of the war against corruption to defraud unsuspecting Nigerians under the cover of anti-corruption crusade within his regime.
The coalition after careful verification discovered that the  several petitions against Professor Vincent Tenebe and the management team of NOUN have ulterior motives
We suspect that the petitions are  part of efforts to overwhelm the anti-corruption efforts with frivolities that will increase the workload of the statutory agencies and derail their focus.
We therefore  appeal to President Buhari to not only disregard the distractions of such frivolous petitioners but to also cause the relevant agencies to expose those abusing the nation’s scarce resources by sending anti-corruption bodies on wild goose chase.
Our belief is that a timely intervention along this line will discourage those who want to distract or mislead the anti-corruption fight in the education sector and other sectors of our national lives.
Torkuma Asongo is the Executive Secretary, Civil Society Organisation for Social Justice, Fairness, and Transparency, CESJET.