How poor management crippled FCT ivory tower in 25 years
It is absolutely unspeakable that the University of Abuja, situated in nation’s capital is in dilapidated condition. In fact, the university is one of the worst in the nation as per infrastructure, poor management and instability.
The university has been rocked with several crises over the past years, the issues appear more intensified as those in charge of the administration seem to complicate matters.
Right now, the avalanche of files, recommendation and facts/figures that indict the management that are before the authorities, even the presidency that have been left unattended to raise more worries on whether the government is ready to solve the problems of the school.
There was unrest recently within the campus which led to total shut down of academic activities for about four months, after a prolonged reaction by students over publication of the Council for Regulation of Engineering (COREN), disqualifying the university whose Faculty of Engineering was not accredited. Subsequently, in April, 2012, the Minister for Education, Prof, Rukayyat Rufai officially pronounce the suspension of four new academic programmes; Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine and Human Medicine.
The action prompted the students to take to the streets of Abuja, expressing anger. This dismay generated series of confusion over University of Abuja, to the extent that people began to seek clarification over the competence of the Vice Chancellor of the institution to manage the affairs of the institution, arguably, the university community accused the VC to have been hinted prior to the demonstration but nothing substantial was arrived at to curb or ameliorate the incidence which later escalated into riots and violent demonstration by the students.
Obviously, for those that are familiar with the university environment, this account is just a piece of a bunch.
According to the review, the report stated that the total money available to the university from 1988 to 2012 amounted to N34,953,209,000 out of this, of N22,937,629,000,00 (65.62%) was from government subvention, capital grants while the balance of N12,015,580,000,00 (34.38%) was from internally generated revenue from other income sources and student fees charged during the period under visitation, while the distribution of the total university income under the tenure of past VCs are as follows: The panel from the financial audit found that there are cases of unsigned financial statements for eight years by both Council and management; differences in figures of university records and audited accounts, consistent understanding of the depreciation charges on the fixed assets; incorrect balancing of the individual creditor accounts; misclassifications of expenditure items; wrong creditor balances resulting in duplication of the recording of liabilities that could lead to loss of university’s funds and elongated tenure of External Auditors Messrs; PKF & Co, for over eight years.
“That, the current Vice-Chancellor be reprimanded for making unilateral and irrational decision to purchase plastic chairs and tables with N37m, further, for contract splitting, failure to obtain the approval of the Council and exceeding his approval limits in award of this contracts.
~Source: The Sun News
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