The management of the Delta State Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku has acted according to the directive issued by the State Assembly to reinstate one, Mrs Grace Adah, a lecturer who was demoted from lecturer 1 to non-academic staff in 2015 due to alleged corruption.
The Rector, Bldr. Prof. Emmanuel Achuenu made this known to journalists on Wednesday. He said the institution is not ready to flout any order in whatever way adding that the demoted lecturer had already been reinstated even before the 24-hour ultimatum issued by the lawmakers.
He also said the management has handed over the reinstated letter to the lecturer and she has signed her copy.
Achuenu said “We have already taken action, the good news is that we have taken action before appearing before the Assembly, it’s just that it has not been properly communicated. Thereafter, we handed over the letter to the candidate, and the action has been taken.”
“She has been reinstated before, it’s just an issue of nomenclature or maybe the assignment. The issue is about someone who has been pardoned from the origin, which is an issue of non-academic and moving her to academic is the one in contention because it is the Council that is handling it not even the school management.
“This matter we are talking about is not even before the management, it’s a council matter. I only saw the need from the management angle and quickly treated it but unfortunately, before the issue was dispensed we had that summon.
“This is an institution that has an interest in compliance, we don’t have any reasons to fail directives but the way it happens it looks as if we don’t want to comply. You know this is an institution and when you are doing something you must look in all directions so that whatever you are doing will not be faulted as well. If somebody gives you directives you must respond and when responding, you also have to look at the case.
“I am a new person in this matter they are talking about, I wasn’t even involved. It happened from 2015 to 2017, mine is just a post manager of the case, Delta State Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku is not willing to flout any order in whatever way. We are happy to comply in totality and whatever the grey area is, it is not an issue. Anything grey area can be corrected but whatever it is, we have fully complied 100 per cent”, the DSPG Rector stated.
However, when contacted by the embattled Lecturer, she acknowledged that she had been issued a letter of compliance by the management and she has equally signed it accordingly.
