AAU’s ASUU denies certificate racketeering, tax evasion allegations

The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma chapter, has denied the allegation of certificate, transcripts racketeering and tax evasion by the Special Intervention Team of the institution.

 The union called on Governor Godwin Obaseki to investigate the misinformation and propaganda being peddled by SIT to determine the true state of the crisis rocking the university.

 The AAU ASUU chairman,  Dr. Cyril Oziegbe Onogbosele, said  this in Benin while addressing journalists on a paper titled “SIT’s Interim and Progress Reports on Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma: The Truth and the Misinformation.”

 Recall that the Special Intervention Team (SIT), set up by the state governor to oversee activities in the institution, said the institution discovered over 30 cases of AAU students living abroad for not less than two years, writing exams and graduating.

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 It also said the staff of the institution had evaded tax to the tune of N2 billion.

 Onogbosele said that the claim that the staff of the institution evaded tax to the tune of N2 billion was false and that if it were true, one would have thought that the names of those culpable should have been published and the offenders prosecuted and punished.

 He said the false information on payment of tax in the university is an attestation of the degree of desperation by SIT.

 “ASUU considers allegation of academic fraud (certificate and transcripts racketeering) as an illusion and demand publication of names, course, departments, year of graduation of the students and lecturers involved in the fraud.”