The Presidential (Special) Visitation Panel to the University of Abuja, has recommended the sacking of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Sunday Adelabu, and his management team.
The report, which was exclusively obtained by our correspondent, in Abuja on Wednesday, listed a series of systematic breaches of financial regulations and what the panel called "wasteful expenditures."
The 31-page document, which is yet to be made public, also recommended that N110, 647, 045.00 misappropriated in the name of security honorarium, should be recovered from the immediate past Vice Chancellor, Prof. Nuhu Yakub, and current Vice Chancellor.
Recommendations by the panel for the sacking of the management team is contained on page 19 under the sub-head 'On Staff and Student Audit'.
It read, "We recommend thus: That the Vice-Chancellor and his Management Team be relieved of their responsibilities. Given the magnitude of the systematic rot, it is recommended that a Professor of repute, strong character and integrity with sound experience in university administration, from outside, be appointed as Vice-Chancellor whose duty it would be to build up a new environment of trust, and re-establish order and a sense of form."
The panel report also said, "Investigation of University finances also revealed cases of huge unretired advances amounting to N240m mostly due to use of direct labour in the execution of projects; excessive increases in University's expenditure profile due to poor planning and lack of financial prudence; and irregular refunds of medical bills for the Pro-Chancellor amounting to over N29m during the period 2009-2012."
Others include violation of approval limits and contract splitting by the current Vice-Chancellor in the purchase of plastic chairs and tables to the tune of N37.6m; wasteful expenditure on public relations and image laundering to the tune of N5.6m in April 2012; paid to some Public Relations Outfits and print/ electronic media for university image laundering and public relations."
Commenting on on-going academic programmes in the school, the panel noted that none of the 58 undergraduate programmes currently offered by the institution had valid NUC accreditation, having earned denied status or had previous accreditation that had now expired.
