The Senior Staff of Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has urged the Federal Government to suspend the Vice Chancellor and two other principal officers of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, over alleged N800 million fraud.

This was stated by the Chairman of SSANU at the Lagos State University, Saheed Oseni in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.

The three officials were arraigned on November 25 by the EFCC.

Oseni said the Federal Government should direct the defendants to step aside pending the determination of the court case.

“At the moment, the trio must step aside so that investigation will not be tampered with and the government is in the best position to take the action,’’ he said.

He also asked the government to reinstate SSANU members in FUNAAB who were unjustly sacked.

“The staff were not issued query nor asked to appear before staff disciplinary committee and the governing council did not investigate the allegations against the VC before sacking them.

“‎We are happy that the EFCC charged the pro-chancellor, VC and bursar to court for corruption.

“It shows that our members who wrote the petition were right and victimised by the governing council and the VC,’’ he said.

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