Afe Babalola, the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, ABUAD, has called on the National Universities Commission, NUC, to put in place laws that would bar any convicted academic from teaching profession.
Babalola said it is time the university regulatory body reviewed its extant laws so that lecturers can stop embarrassing any further among comity of countries and save the education sector from ignominy.
He spoke in Ado Ekiti, the state capital on Sunday, March 28, 2021, at the occasion marking the third anniversary of ABUAD’s 400-Bed Multi-System Hospital and send-forth ceremony for the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof Fola Esan.
The foremost legal luminary lampooned the convicted Peter Ogban, a professor of Soil Science, University of Calabar for manipulating election results, lamenting the rots in the university system need urgent actions.
According to him, reviewing the existing laws would not only provide avenue for shaming such erring lecturers, it would also make it difficult for such professors from securing alternative teaching jobs in any university again.
“The moment any academic is convicted of any crime while serving in one university, the NUC should make it impossible for him to be employed in any other university in the country again.
“This is one of the ways to sanitise the university system.
“We have just recently read in the media the shameful story of one Prof Peter Ogbe of a University who had just been convicted for electoral fraud that earned him two years imprisonment,” he said.
Source: The Nation
