Scrapping Of Faculty, Departments Is Government’s Decision, ATBU Clarifies

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) successful Bauchi has said the scrapping oregon abandonment of the module of absorption sciences and different departments of the institutions was not its handiwork, but alternatively a determination of the national government.

According to the institution, the scrapping of the said module followed the directive by the national authorities for each the universities to spell backmost to their archetypal mandates and ATBU Bauchi is not an exception.

ATBU manager of Information,  Mal. Zailani Bappa, revealed this astatine a property league successful Bauchi yesterday. He said the determination followed past month’s gathering betwixt the curate of acquisition and the governing councils of universities wherever they were directed to autumn backmost to their archetypal mandates.

Zailani said, “We person a caller medication successful spot nether President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Last period the Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa invited each the governing councils of national universities successful Nigeria for a meeting”.

“During that meeting, helium mentioned to them that a argumentation determination has been taken by the government, that each assemblage indispensable spell backmost to its mandate. Technology Universities indispensable instrumentality to exertion courses. Universities of Agriculture indispensable instrumentality to being Universities of Agriculture, University of Transportation, immoderate of which were introduced, indispensable instrumentality to that”.

It could beryllium recalled that Monday, immoderate aggrieved radical of Bauchi State nether the aegis of Bauchi State Citizens Forum accused the ATBU Vice Chancellor. Professor Ibrahim Hassan Garba of subverting acquisition successful the institution.

The forum astatine the property league successful Bauchi Monday led by Comrade Abdullahi Yalwa noted this is conscionable 1 of the galore antagonistic consequences of the VC’s plan, which were compelled by the necessity of the substance to bring to the nationalist sermon for the attraction and enactment by each concerned.

“A gathering held conscionable past week with the section ASUU successful the assemblage wherever accusation connected this astir unwelcome improvement was relayed to the national arsenic obtained from the VC was a wide grounds to that. It is simply a backward determination due to the fact that the VC is not an indigene of Bauchi State.

“Our presumption connected the substance is driven by empirical facts, superior arguments and plausible reasoning, particularly arsenic we person enactment some arguments for and against connected the nonsubjective standard of investigation and the effect is that the VC’s presumption connected the substance is ill-motivated, logically incoherent and wholly wrong.

“If the existent statement successful presumption of the scope and sum of its world activities is not lone maintained but expanded done making it a accepted assemblage arsenic it happened with Modibbo Adama University Yola, Adamawa State and Joseph Tarka University Makurdi, Benue authorities to notation but a few”.

Comrade Yalwa, backup by Barrister Jibrin Sa’id Jibrin, besides called connected the Government of Bauchi State, the accepted institutions, elder citizens and each lad and girl of the authorities to articulation the efforts, enrich the conversation, prosecute each acrophobic truthful that a halt is enactment to the VC’s plans successful the champion involvement of all.

“In particular, the Governor and authorities of Bauchi authorities person a large involvement successful this matter. It is simply a information that successive administrations successful the authorities and different elder citizens person contributed and invested greatly successful the maturation and developmental thrust of the state, which brought it to its contiguous level of development.”

Yalwa enumerated immoderate arsenic the similar of Alhaji Mahmood Yayale Ahmed, Ajiyan Katagum, Barrister Ahmed Al-Mustapha erstwhile Registrar General of the CAC, Alhaji Muhammed Uba Kari Wazirin Bauchi to notation immoderate notable examples, saying the inclination should proceed guardant and indispensable not determination backwards.

“As we person had occasions to sermon with immoderate captious stakeholders adjacent earlier the existent contented came about, each genuine person of acquisition and the advancement of our beloved authorities is already progressive arsenic portion and parcel of this struggle. And by Allah’s grace, we shall succeed. We again plead with the enactment of the assemblage to rescind its ill-motivated plan”, Yalwa concluded.