OLABISI Onabanjo University, OOU, chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the inability of the institution to fill its admission quota for last year is a threat to the school’s survival, saying prospective students are shunning the institution.
Chairman of the institution’s ASUU, Dr. Adesola Nasir Adesola, who at a briefing blamed the allegation that most of the certificates issued by the school are not genuine to the problem facing the school, fingered the last government of the state and the governing council it constituted for crisis of confidence rocking the institution.
He warned that the looming nationwide ASUU strike over the Federal Government failure to implement the 2009 agreement would compound the situation of the OOU as it was still battling to fill the admission quota given to it by National Universities Commission (NUC) for the 2010 admission.
According to him, “this year, we are still struggling to fill our quota. It is saddening if we remember that OOU used to be over- subscribed just three years ago. The quota went down, two years ago. The university’s governing council constituted by the last government of Ogun state unleashed terror on both staff and students of this university, such that over 150 lecturers were sacked without recourse to due process.
“The most worrisome is that the past governing council published in the newspapers that most of the certificates carried by OOU graduates cannot be trusted claiming that the certificates are fake. All the students and those that have graduated are carrying the stigma.
“So, parents have read those things and why will a parent brings his child to a place where they said, their certificates cannot be trusted. The other one is shortage of lecturers, shortage of staff, whenever exams are concluded; it takes many weeks or months to compute results.
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