By Our Reporter
ABUJA (PRECISE POST) – The House of Representatives Committee on University Education has urged the new Vice Chancellor of University of Abuja, Prof. Hakeem Babatunde Fawehinmi to take necessary steps in order to halt alleged accommodation racketeering and shady practices in the institution.
Chairman, House Committee on University Education, Hon. Abubakar Hassan Fulata, made this known following his committee visit to the school.
“We have received several petitions regarding accommodation racketeering. Some middle men will get it and lease it to others an exorbitant price sometime exceeding over 500%.
“This is very wrong and it poses serious challenges to so many people particularly female who may be exposed to many problems,” he said.
He urged Prof. Fawehinmi and entire management of of the University to ensure harmony between the management and various staff unions as well as students.
The committee also tasked the new Vice Chancellor of UniAbuja to avoid all issues that led to leadership crisis in the institution in the past, resulting to emergence of four (4) vice chancellors within three years.
In the same vain, the committee also urged the Vice Chancellor and management team of the newly established Federal University of Technology Abuja to adhere to federal character principles in employment and admission.
Fulata also noted that the committee had an interface with the Vice Chancellor and Management team of Federal University of Technology Minna and Federal University of Education Kontongora, Niger State over the management of the school in recent times.
Meanwhile, the Vice Chancellor of Usman Danfodio University Sokoto, Prof. Bashir Garba has appeared before the committee in Abuja. Recall that the House recently invited him over the management of the school in the last three years.
Prof. Garba who apologized to the lawmakers over his absence when they visited the university, said he runs a transparent system and has nothing to hide from the general public let alone the House Committee on University Education. He promised to work with the committee and relevant stakeholders in order to take the institution to the desired height.
