Prof Iorapuu Was Frustrated From Transforming Benue Varsity – Group

A group, Alliance for Defence, Democracy and Good Governance, has lamented that the intrigues astatine Father Adasu University, formerly Benue State University, Makurdi, prevented the vice chancellor, Professor Joe Iorapuu, from executing his imaginativeness for the state-owned institution.

The relation besides described the authorities government’s inability to backmost the vice chancellor and guarantee that the assemblage continued to instrumentality reforms brought to it with precision arsenic a wasted opportunity.
Its president, Dr Wole Akinjide, told journalists that successful August 2023, successful a letter, helium drew the attraction of the past vice chancellor, Professor Tor Iorapuu, astir a visitation sheet connected a fact-finding ngo done an chartless process to the assemblage and requested the VC to resign due to the fact that of sick intentions.

The missive reads: “Dear Professor Tor Iorapuu KSM, you volition callback that sometime successful August 2023, astatine astir 9:37 am, I called you. Quite typical, you picked the call. You were connected your mode to Makurdi from Jos.
According to you, immoderate developments required your urgent instrumentality to Makurdi. And it was for the aforesaid developments that I made the telephone to you. I work that the authorities had acceptable up a visitation sheet aft a failed mockery effort of an chartless process successful a assemblage strategy called the ‘Fact-Finding Committee’.

“The intent of my telephone was simple. I requested that you resign your assignment arsenic the vice chancellor of Benue State University. I made this petition for the pursuing reasons: From the inception of the caller administration, the absorption was connected you and your university.

“The mounting up of the Fact-finding Committee that visited the assemblage was ill-intended.

The Visitation Panel followed this. I americium sufficiently informed that different authorities agencies person sent teams to audit your activities. I americium besides informed that adjacent your Council has acceptable up each mode of panels to analyse your activities, including a forensic audit.

“Since the inception of this regime, determination person been struggles to overgarment you black, to destruct you. Who wants to contaminate you? Who hates your peace? Who wants you to cease to beryllium a quality being, to go a puppet?”