By Gabriel Dike
The Senate of the Lagos State University (LASU) has approved the suspension of 25 students over alleged involvement in examination misconduct during the 2015/2016 academic session.
A statement from LASU Centre for Information Press and Public Relations (CIPPR) made available to Daily Sun disclosed that the students were suspended for failing to appear before the examination misconduct panel set up by the university, to consider cases of examination misconduct allegation levelled against them.
“The university Senate on the recommendation of the Committee of Provost, Deans and Directors on examination misconduct has ratified the suspension of 25 students of the university for the 2015/2016 academic session.’’
According to the statement from the CIPPR, the university Senate took the decision at its 228th statutory meeting held on June 2 and directed that the students remain suspended pending their appearance(s) before the panel within a period of one month from the receipt of their letters.
The Senate stressed that if the 25 students failed to appear before the panel on the next invitation, it would lead to expulsion in accordance with existing regulations of the university.
“The concerned students are not to participate in any activity, academic or otherwise of the university until the suspensions are lifted.’’
Breakdown of the students revealed that the bulk of them are final year students with Business Administration having the highest (nine), Sociology (five), Public Administration (four), Political Science (three), Banking and Finance (two) while Computer Science and Economic had one each.
In a related development, the university Vice Chancellor, Prof. Lanre Fagbohun has inaugurated a committee to investigate the mismanagement of the university students’ union vehicles and equipment.
While inaugurating the five-man committee, the vice chancellor said they were to investigate allegation of detention/mismanagement of Students’ Union (LASUSU), property by former executive members of the union.
“Allegations are rife that the last students’ union executive members mismanaged the union’s assets. We cannot sweep this under the carpet, if we do, we will be setting a bad precedence because the positions are positions of trust and there must be a sense of transparency and accountability. The work of this committee is very important and we believe this committee is well positioned to carry out the task,” vice chancellor said.
Professor N. A. Olasupo of the Department of Microbiology heads the committee.