Agric University management denies substituting names of 127 sacked workers

The absorption of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, has said that the Vice Chancellor,  Professor Ursula Akanwa, had nary manus successful the past recruitment workout carried retired successful the university.

The instauration besides said the Vice Chancellor did not substitute the names of employed workers, arsenic being alleged by immoderate occupation applicants.

A radical of 127 sacked workers had on Monday called for President Bola Tinubu’s intervention, alleging that the absorption of the assemblage sacked them connected July 15, 2026, adjacent aft they were captured successful the Federal Government’s employment database for the agric university.

The workers who spoke astatine the NUJ Press Centre, Umuahia, claimed that they were forced to surrender their assignment letters and individuality cards by information unit of the university.

But debunking the accusations  on Tuesday, the Head, Public Relations and Protocol of the university, Anyaso Anyaso,  said that the absorption of the instauration had nary entree to the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System, GIFMIS, domiciled successful the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation.

Anyaso explained that the Federal Government gave a waiver for the erstwhile vice chancellor and his management to employment only 426 workers b...