A document revealing the pattern of
appointments in Kwara State University which has been subject of dispute in the
past one week has been discovered. The document shows that the allegation of
witch-hunting promoted by a certain group in the university may not be true
after all.
It was gathered that in order to
follow academic tradition and standard, for the first time in the history of
Kwara State University, appointment of Deans of Faculties was democratized.
It was revealed that the decision to
subject the appointment of deans to election was taken jointly by the deans and
the management headed by the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Shaykh Luqman
Jimoh.
In view of this, at the election held
during the first week of November 2023, new deans were elected in the various
faculties, with five coming from Kwara Central, none from Kwara North and Kwara
South.
The Deans for the Faculty of
Information and Communication Technology and that of Management and Social
Sciences were appointed by the Acting Vice-Chancellor, where the professors in
the two faculties declined nomination. This resulted into six deans coming from
Kwara Central, one from Kwara North and none coming from Kwara South.
Two candidates from Kwara Central
were also appointed Dean School of Postgraduate Studies, and that of Student
Affairs, respectively.
This makes the deans coming from
Kwara Central to be eight (8) out of 11, one from Kwara North, none from Kwara
South and one each from Kogi and Oyo states.
In addition, of the 33 directors of
centres and units in the university appointed either by the late
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi and reappointed by the
Acting Vice-Chancellor, 17 are from Kwara Central, 11 from Kwara South, two (2)
from Kwara North and three (3) from other states.
Virtually all the appointees by the
late Vice-Chancellor were retained, and only 10 fresh appointments and two (2)
redeployment were done by the Acting Vice-Chancellor.
Of the 10 new appointments by the
Acting Vice-Chancellor, six (6) are from Kwara Central, three (3) from Kwara
South, none from Kwara North and one (1) from another state.
Two candidates who are from Kwara
Central were redeployed to other centres or units having spent more than eight
years in their posts.
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