Fact-Check: ADSU Mubi law does not recognise ‘acting Vice Chancellor’
The law establishing Adamawa state University, does not have any provision for the office of Acting Vice Chancellor. Investigation by The Finder Newspaper revealed, on July 19, 2017, Prof. Kaletapwa George was appointed as Acting Vice Chancellor of the State University a position she held up till date.
On July 19, 2017, Kaletapwa was appointed as ‘Acting Vice Chancellor’ of the state university Mubi.
In a curious move by this news medium to look at statute that established ADSU, Mubi, and our findings showed that the appointment of Prof. Kaleptapwa George Farauta as Acting Vice Chancellor of ADSU Mubi is not supported by Adamawa State University Law of 2001.
The appointment of the Vice chancellor of Adamawa state University, Mubi is contained in the first schedule, section (3)1, 2, which states as follow “(1) subject to the provision of this paragraph the Vice Chancellor shall be appointed from a list of three nominee submitted to him by the council. Subsequent Vice chancellors shall be removed by the governor on the recommendation by the council (2) the Vice Chancellor shall hold office for the term of five years and there shall no longer be eligible for re-appointment until at least four years has elapsed since he held the last office as Vice chancellor”. there is no mention of acting Vice Chancellor in Adamawa state university law 2001.
Speaking to this news medium on the condition of anonymity pertaining the controversy surrounding the appointment and the illegal continuous stay in office by Prof. Kaletapwa George Farauta for over two years and counting, a senior staff of the university said “our university laws does not in any way recognize the office of the Acting Vice Chancellor, even a reference to the interpretation act laws of the federation of Nigeria 2004, acting capacity cannot not be more than two term of three months each. As I speak to you now, no one can explain the continuous stay of the Acting Vice Chancellor for about three years in office. The whole thing just doesn’t make any sense, he said. As things are now, ADSU, Mubi is on auto-pilot and the law of the university is not adhered to.
“We are calling on Gov. Fintiri to immediately constitute a governing council that will see to the emergency of new management staff of the University not the current ones that is hiding under acting capacity to stay in office beyond the six months envisage by the interpretation acts.
All effort to get the reaction of the Acting Vice Chancellor concerning her position on the current controversy surrounding her illegal stay in office as Acting Vice chancellor was not successful, as her mobile phone was not reachable before press time.