Special Adviser on Media Matters to the Vice-Chancellor, Mr Wole Balogun, confirmed the suspension in a statement issued on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti.

He, however, denied the allegation that Akande was prevented from entering her office, saying that all the security men deployed were at the institution’s gate and could not have stopped her from entering her office.

“The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, is a law-abiding citizen and could not have supported brigandage. It is not true that the bursar was harassed.

“Let me clear the air that the security men were deployed at the gate due to the ongoing probe. They were there to maintain law and order,” Balogun said.

He further said that the suspension slammed on the bursar was to allow an unfettered probe into the allegations raised against her, adding that she had not been sacked, as being rumoured.

In her reaction, Akande, however, accused the university management of using security agencies to chase and harass her after being ‘illegally’ suspended.

Akande, who was until May 7, the bursar of the institution, said it was regrettable that the security personnel, allegedly deployed by the vice-chancellor, prevented her from entering her office, in spite of not being found culpable of any offence.

She explained that the Personal Assistant to the vice-chancellor sent a message to her last week, inundating her of a petition written against her by Joint Action Committee and that a panel had been set up by management to probe into all the allegations raised.

Akande said that she found it demeaning, humiliating and dehumanising that she was harassed by security personnel while trying to gain access to her office on Thursday.

According to her, such actions shouldn’t exist in any higher institution of learning.

“A text message was sent to me last Wednesday by one Abayomi Kuku that I was to appear before a panel of investigation on Thursday by 11 am.

“I honoured them and immediately I left the venue of the panel and got back to my office, I met two security men at the entrance and I discovered that my office had been locked. The two men informed me that the order was from above.

“I put a call to the vice-chancellor to confirm the development but he told me that he never knew anything about it and that I should contact the Chief Security Officer of the institution.

“All my belongings, including the handbag that I brought to the office on that day, were locked inside the office.

“As I’m talking to you now, they are still inside the office, as they didn’t allow me to have access to the office,” she said.

Akande also added that no letter was given to her by the institution’s management, except the one sent to her by the personal assistant to the vice-chancellor.

“In fact, I was chased out of office like a child and a low ranking officer. This I found unlawful, embarrassing and dehumanising,” she stated.

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The Governing Council chaired by Dr Mohammed Yahuza on Tuesday took the decision days after Odusanya was suspended from office over allegation of misconduct.

A statement co-signed by the Chief Information Officer and the Special Adviser on Media Matters to the Vice-Chancellor, Foluso Ogunmodede and Wole Balogun, respectively, disclosed that Odusanya’s appointment was terminated during the Council’s meeting.

However, Prof. Abayomi Sunday Fasina, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, has allayed the fear being entertained in the University community that following the exit of the Registrar, the university would come after those he had allegedly recruited in what has now been confirmed as irregular exercise.

Specifically, Fasina said those entertaining such fear or being furnished with such rumour should perish the thought as his administration was not going to witch-hunt any member of staff.

Odusanya was on 20th April 2021, suspended from office to pave the way for proper investigation into allegations of irregular appointment during the recruitment exercise of the University between 1st August 2020 and 10th February 2021.

His dismissal, however, was approved by the University Governing Council on Tuesday after critically looking at a report by the Council Disciplinary Committee set up to review the report of the Investigative Committee which reviewed all appointments during the said period.

The Council approved Mr. Mufutau Ibrahim as FUOYE’s Acting Registrar.

Meanwhile, following that incident, there have been insinuations from several quarters within and outside the University that the Fasina-led management has allegedly embarked on a witch-hunt with a view to sacking members of staff who fell allegedly under irregular appointment by Odusanya contrary to the University’s regulations.

But clearing the air on the matter, the statement co-signed by Ogunmodede and Balogun said the VC wasn’t going to go after any members of staff as his mission was never to sack any member of staff but to improve on the well-being and welfare of staff.

The statement reads: “For me as the VC, my emergence was God’s divine mandate and project. So, l will not work against anyone. I have no plan to sack any staff member of our great Ivory Tower. “However, in line with the Council’s directive, we will review all the said appointments with a view to regularising all appointments that measure up to our standards, most notably departmental needs, qualifications, proper placement and due process.

“My passion has always been to make life very conducive and comfortable for anyone around me and this is what I have always dedicated my life to. God has really helped me and fought for me. I have nothing to do than to love people around me and spread happiness to all.

“I assure you, no one will be a victim of the suspension of the Registrar by the Governing Council of our great Citadel of Learning.

“Rather, the staff member shall continue to enjoy the best in terms of incentives to work, proper training to hone their skills and amazing welfare packages that will continue to gladden their hearts.”

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