The clash between the management of Edo State Government-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, and the institution’s chapter of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is getting messier, as the lecturers are insisting that the management is being economical with the truth.
Chairperson of ASUU at AAU, Dr. Cyril Onogbosele, at a news conference in Benin last Thursday, said no fewer than 25 members of academic staff of the university had lost their lives since he came on board on August 3, 2021, over the crisis in the university, caused by aberrations, impunities, oddities and misnomers.
Onogbosele said within the period of focus, the university witnessed the eclipse of the universally-cherished university autonomy, administrative misnomer, highhandedness, pauperisation and victimisation of staff, erosion of pristine university ethos of due process, rule of law and academic freedom – all in the name of repositioning.
The management of AAU, through its Head, Corporate Communications and Protocol, Otunba Mike Aladenika, in a statement, however, described the university’s ASUU news conference as a cacophony of half-truth activism.
He said scientific accuracy was the hallmark of research.
