Adamawa Assembly orders immediate reinstatement of sacked lecturers
Story from Abdulaziz JAURO, Yola
The State House of Assembly in Adamawa State has on Tuesday ordered the Management of the Adamawa State Polytechnic Yola, to reinstate four(4) dismissed lecturers with immediate effect.
For alleged unlawful dismissal, the Assembly ordered the Rector and the management staff to appear before it on Wednesday, and cautioned them to desist from flagrant abuse of extant laws and regulations.
The Assembly has equally directed the Management of the Polytecnic to pay the affected lecturers all their entitlements/benefits from the date of the ‘illegal’ suspension and subsequent dismissal.
The affected lectureres include; Dr Paul Zira Wache, Abubakar Mohammed Babale, Usman Hammarwabi and Isa Njobdi Ribadu.
The affected lecturers were sacked by the institution over alleged alteration of results, forgery, allocation of fake marks and other unprofessional acts on the 20th February, 2020.
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The Assembly’s order followed the consideration and adoption of the report of the Committee on Public Petition and Electoral Matters under the Chairmanship of Honourable Adwawa Donglock, representing Guyuk Local Government Area.
Honourable Adwawa’s committee informed the Assembly in its report that the lecturers were suspended and subsequently dismissed from service without fair hearing.
It recommended that the action of the institution be set aside having been carried in an outright violation of fundamental human right, fair hearing and the regulation of the polytechnic.
Speaking while considering the report, Honorable Abdullahi Umar Yapak of Verre Constituency, commended the committee for doing a thorough job, lamenting a situation whereby the affected lecturers were denied fair hearing and supported the recommendations.
On her part, Hon. Kate Raymond Mamuno, applauded the the committtee for doing justice to the petition filed by the dismissed lecturers.
Also speaking, the Deputy Speaker, Honorable Pwamwakeno Mackondo of Numan Constituency and Hon. Alhassan Hammajoda of Ganye Constituency, expressed support for the reinstatement of the affected persons, saying that the reinstatement should be done with immediate effect.
