Alleged Corruption: Protesters seek sack of UNIMED VC

Coalition of Ondo State Indigenes Against Corruption (COIAC), on Tuesday, stormed the Ondo state governor’s office, in Alagbaka, Akure, the state capital, demanding the sack of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Prof. Adesgun Fatusi over alleged corruption and high handedness.

The protesters, who said the VC who has about eight months to the end of his tenure barricaded the entrance of the governor’s office, said the university under the watch of Fatusi was on the verge of bankruptcy.

They vowed not to allow the institution to be run aground by the VC and called on Aiyedatiwa to wade into the matter before it was too late.

Speaking, the leader of the protesters, Feyi Emmanuel said they decided to carry placards from Ondo town to the streets of Akure to let Governor Aiyedatiwa know about the ongoing atrocities in the school, saying the institution is now in a sorry state.

According to him, “UNIMED is our institution of pride in Ondo State. It is the foremost leading institution in the country in the field of medicine and other relevant medical courses.

“We are sorry to report that an institution Prof. Fatusi inherited has become a sorry state. The institution needs to be rescued from the grip of Fatusi. Prof Fatusi’s only mission is to leave the school in ruins.

“Our demand is simple. Fatusi must go. He has wrecked and crippled the institution financially.

“Mr. Governor, we urge you to urgently intervene and sack Fatusi. He has rendered our people jobless by ensuring that 70 percent of UNIMED staffers are non-indigenes.

“We demand that financial status of UNIMED be investigated because we know UNIMED is bankrupt. UNIMED council members are all contractors.

“He is an administrative vampire and lacks managerial ability.”

Spokesperson for the institution, Mr. Isaac Oluyi, described the allegations as spurious and the handiwork of detractors who did not understand how universities work all over the world or have little or no knowledge about UNIMED.

He said, “This is the first specialized university of medical sciences in Nigeria that has grown in leaps and bounds under Professor Adesegun Fatusi with visible evidence in terms of accomplishments. We invite the whole world to come and see for themselves.

” Results do not lie. The footprints of Professor Fatusi in terms of remarkable achievements are there even for a blind man to see.

“How can anybody say that a university ranked as 4th best university among the state-owned universities in Nigeria under Fatusi be in ruins?

“This is completely laughable! For whosoever cares to know the truth, we invite you to our fast growing university under the able leadership of Professor Fatusi, a man who prioritises merit over any other primordial sentiment.”

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