The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has summoned the administration of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, for alleged victimization, extortion, and criminal breach of duty.
Williams Akionbare and C. Onanuju, two of the institution’s lecturers, have also been summoned.
They’ll appear for a public hearing on a petition filed by M.A. Ogbodogbo’s law firm on behalf of FUTO student Mr. Brain Otobha.
In a letter to Ogbodogbo, the Committee’s Clerk, Freedom Osolo, recalled that the last time the committee met on the subject, on July 13, 2021, it was decided to extend the hearing to allow the respondents to appear.
According to Osolo, the parties will now appear for the public hearing on Tuesday, October 12, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. in Room 120 of the New Senate Building of the National Assembly Complex in Abuja.
The petitioner (Otobha), a Project Management Technology Department student with Registration Number 20091700346, claims that his teachers have been maliciously failing him in several of his exams since 2014, preventing him from graduating.
Otobha, who is from Emede in Delta State’s Isoko South Local Government Area, claims he was penalized for refusing to comply with his course lecturers’ cash demands.
He did, however, request that the university’s new Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Nnenna Oti, investigate the facts of the case and expedite his graduation.
Ada Peter
