Ekiti varsity reinstates 363 sacked workers

From Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti
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The Governing Council of Ekiti State University has reinstated the 363 workers recently sacked by the management of the institution.

In a statement by the Head, Directorate of Information and Corporate Affairs of the university, Mr. Bode Olofinmuagun, the decision was taken at its Special Meeting on January 7, 2020.

The release said the recall was sequel to the successful appeals lodged by those concerned.

“The staff audit recently carried out clearly exposed the fact that many of the disengaged staff were over aged, some with fake certificates, some falsified their ages, some were illegally recruited and many were indeed ghost workers who never showed up for the exercise.”

”The reinstatement of some of the staff, according to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Edward Olanipekun, was a vindication of the fact that the exercise was not to witchhunt any member of staff, but carried out to reposition the university for better service delivery so that EKSU could become a university of reference nationally and in the global intellectual market of the 21st century.”