127 sacked Agric University workers accuse school management of substituting names

One 100 and twenty-seven caller unit of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture,, Umudike, Abia State, who were employed by the Federal Government , person appealed to President Bola Tinubu to prevail connected the absorption of the instauration to reinstate them arsenic duly employed workers of the institution.

The workers who were astatine the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, bureau successful Umuahia on Monday to question help, alleged that they were sacked and replaced with candidates allegedly fetched from extracurricular the archetypal employment list.

Speaking connected behalf of his disengaged colleagues, Mr. Eze Ejike and Mrs Gospel Nwaike said that 553 caller workers were duly employed by the Federal Government and captured connected the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System, GIFMIS, by officials from the Office of the  Accountant General of the Federation, Abuja.

He said that contempt being issued authoritative assignment letters and unit Identity Cards by the Federal Government, and contempt moving for 5 months successful 2026, the absorption of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, sacked them connected Wednesday, 15th July 2026.

He claimed that 127 names contained successful the authentic GIFMIS database of 553 employed workers hav...