Emma ARUBI

WARRI-THE Governing Council of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, FUPRE, Ugbomro, Effurun, near Warri, Delta state, has directed the institution’s registrar, Dr (Mrs) L.O. Onwuka to proceed on immediate suspension pending the conclusion of investigation into alleged high-handedness, concealment of information, contemptuousness and ineptitude leveled against her by the three unions in the University.

The University Council further direct that she proceed on her accumulated and terminal leave after the conclusion of investigation into the alleged offences, just as her single five years tenure of office terminates March 27, 2012.

University sources told Vanguard that the three unions in the University had in a petition against the registrar revealed that the woman deliberately concealed from Council the information about the ill-health and hospitalization of the School’s Vice-Chancellor, an action they claimed created tension and almost led to complete paralysis of the University functions.

They also stated in the petitions that the Registrar unilaterally ran the University in the absence of the V-C and also cancelled already scheduled interview for appointment for academic staff without due approval from the Professor who ordinarily would have been overseeing the affairs of the University.

According to the petitions fro the three unions, the out –going Registrar caused the University to pay some huge amount running into millions to a consultant engaged to sort out some University matters, only for her to draft some staff of the Registry department to execute the job.

Her actions they alleged also led to the University losing a Professor of Mathematics due to frustration that forced him to resign from FUPRE prematurely amongst others.

These were part of the decision taken at the 17th meeting of the Governing Council of the institution held last Wednesday, even as uneasy calm now pervades the entire University campus.