The sacking of the vice chancellor last week Wednesday evening might not be unconnected with the seeming disagreement the vice chancellor, had with Governor Okorocha on the administration of the state university, especially as regards the free education policy of the state government.
News reports indicate that the embattled vice chancellor who was immediately replaced by the former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, had demanded among other things improved funding of the state university, especially in the area of infrastructural development and to make money available to put the necessary things in place for the full accreditation of the courses of some of the departments.
It was gathered that Prof Nwoke had also been at loggerheads with the government over its refusal to regularize his appointment.
A senior lecturer in the university, who spoke with a popular Nigerian daily on the condition of anonymity, stated that the sacked VC had been locked in a running battle with the state governor, who had refused to regularize his appointment, despite calls from ASUU, noting the overbearing interference of the government in the running of the institution.
According to him, “this is the second vice chancellor of IMSU to be sacked by Okorocha and it is not healthy for the system.”
In the same vein, Okorocha also approved the appointment of Princess Ngozi Duru, as the Acting Provost of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Amaigbo, Nwangele Local Council.
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