The Presidential Visitation Panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the crisis that led to the removal of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has submitted its report.
Receiving the report on Thursday, Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu who inaugurated the committee on August 26, said: “I am very happy to learn that the panel worked very hard within the two-weeks given to it in order to arrive at recommendations which I hope will assist the visitor in taking an informed decision to solve the lingering crisis.
“It is my hope that the panel directs all officials and all stakeholders who are supposed to contribute towards the resolution of the crisis in the course of his assignment in order to have a fair balance of issue at hand.
“The visitor of the university after due consideration of their report will take a decision on the matter as appropriate in order to resolve this and produce learning atmosphere in the university of Lagos and the university system as a whole.”
The minister commended the panel for taking out time to look into the crisis while assuring that the decision would be subjected to close scrutiny and justice in all area.
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Speaking earlier, the Chairman of the panel, Prof. Tukur Sa’ad, recalled that the panel was instituted based on calls from different sections on the legality of the removal of the vice chancellor by the council headed by Prof. Wale Babalakin
“The president and visitor of the University of Lagos inaugurated a special visitation panel on the University of Lagos on the Aug. 26, 2020.
“The panel looked into the crisis bedeviling the university and made appropriate recommendations to the government.
“Over the past one year, there has been considerable disquiet within the University of Lagos among management, council and some stakeholders.
“This emanated from allegations against management which led the council to set up a sub committee to review the expenditure of the University of Lagos since May 2017.
“The report of the subcommittee of the council in chronology of allegations by the council against the vice chancellor and members of management led to the removal of the vice chancellor of the University on Aug. 12, 2020.”
