No academic staff was involved in examination malpractices in the Distance Learning Center, DLC, of the University of Ibadan, the school’s chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said.
The chairman of the chapter, Prof. Deji Omole, in a statement in reaction to some newspaper reports, said those arrested by the DSS were non-academic staff in the technical unit of the DLC.
He berated the Director of Public Communications of the university, Mr. Olatunji Oladejo, as misinforming the public.
It would be recalled that seven staff of the DLC of the institution were picked up by the DSS last Thursday over the allegation that they were involved in aiding and abetting examination malpractices and compromising the integrity of examinations in the university.
However Omole said academic staff were not fingered or linked to the fraud and no one should drag them into it, stating that the union was not against punishing anyone linked to the fraud.
He disclosed that apart from the university committee, ASUU also had a standing committee on ethics and standard dealing with ethical and unethical issues, warning that the union would not take it lightly when its members were wrongly accused.
