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Fears have gripped Vice Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts of tertiary institutions indicted in the visitation panel reports following the approved public presentation of the Federal Government White Papers to stakeholders.
Fears have gripped Vice Chancellors, Rectors and Provosts of tertiary institutions indicted in the visitation panel reports following the approved public presentation of the Federal Government White Papers to stakeholders.
Two years after the Federal Government through the former Minister of Education Professor Fabian Osuji constituted visitation panels to look into the affairs of the universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, the white papers, are being made pubic to the stakeholders.
The decision of the Federal Government through the Education Minister, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili to make available the white papers to stakeholders has reportedly created fears and anxiety among those indicted by the reports.
Stakeholders of the Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of education have commended government's decision to allow them know its views on the outcome of various visitation panels to federal institutions.
The government white papers on the various visitation panels which is for 1999-2003 has also been made available to stakeholders, the three house unions in the institutions as well as the students unions to study.
The National President, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), chief Promise Adewusi described the public presentation of the white papers as a welcome development and lauded the minister, Dr Ezekwesili for the initiative.
Asewusi told Daily Sun that for sometime government failed to implement visitation panel reports thus creating tensions in the institutions stressing 'this is the first time government will give stakeholders opportunity to see and make inputs into its views on the report. This change will better the system."
He agreed that heads of tertiary institutions indicted by the reports be sanctioned, including those who have completed their tenure and that the public presentation would also afford the stakeholders to point out those who were wrongly indicted and demand for correction.