Anxiety in Enugu as ESUT loses accreditation

Anxiety has gripped students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT,over alleged loss of accreditation of several departments following its alleged disengagement of about 153 of its lecturers. 

ESUT management tagged the recruitment of the 153 lecturers as an,”academic fraud,” even as the affected university lecturers had lamented that they were sacked by ESUT authorities shortly after using them to scale the last accreditation exercise of some of its faculties/departments.

Despite several protest letters and appeals, the University refused to rescind their sack. Confirming the withdrawal of the accreditation of faculties/departments earlier given to ESUT authorities,Tuesday, the Director of Information and Public Relations of the NUC, Mallam Ibrahim Yakassai, said that the NUC under the Executive Secretary, Professor Julius Okojie frowned at a situation where some universities hired and sacked lecturers immediately after using them (lecturers) to get accreditation.

Malam Yakassai acknowledged that the Commission received several petitions from the dismissed lecturers from the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. He said: “Following the series of petitions from the disengaged staff of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, the NUC on February 12, 2016 withdrew accreditation of Mass Communication, Engineering, Psychology and some other departments. The NUC cannot sit down and watch such an ugly development.”

When contacted, the ESUT Director of Communication, Ossy Ugwuoti, said he was not competent to comment on the matter until he gets clearance from his principal.

-Vanguard