Campaign
to Save ESUT
Enugu State University of Science and
Technology,
Enugu.
20
March, 2012.
The
Vice Chancellor
Enugu State University of Science and
Technology,
Enugu.
Dear
Sir,
PROF
SYLVESTER IKE OLUKA IN ACCREDITATION SCAM
This maverick professor is
involved in another scam. Our investigation revealed that Prof S.I. Oluka, the
insatiable extortionist, has commenced another scam of extortion and
exploitation of students of engineering faculty that is estimated to yield for
him and his cohorts gross revenue of about N40 million. This plan of extortion
started with his decision to impose a levy of N5,000 – N10,000 on staff members
of the faculty, a decision he unilaterally took without consulting even the
staff members that would have been levied – taxation without representation and
consideration which Aba
women rioted and resisted in the colonial era. This tyranny and tyrannical
position and disposition of Prof Oluka never allow him follow due process. His
insatiable greed and gluttony for easy money made him sightless to the
procedural and other inherent anomalies cum flaws of his distasteful method.
The Vice Chancellor who has
become weary of him diverged with his request for the deduction of N5,000 –
N10,000 at source from the salaries of all faculty staff, of Engineering
Faculty giving assurances to completely fund and monitor the disbursement of
accreditation funds. This professor whose historical disdain for rules and
regulations, surresptiously opened a clandestine bank account named ESUT Faculty of Engineering, where he,
Prof. Sylvester Ike Oluka is the sole signatory! This bank account was
opened for his clandestine and obstinate aim of soliciting and obtaining bribes
and other sundry payments from students in exchange for favours in his official
capacity.
The bank account details
are as follows:
Fidelity
Bank
Account
Number: 5210009569
Account
Name: ESUT Faculty of Engineering
To explicitly underline and
amplify the nefarious intentions of this bank account, the Dean, Prof. S.I. Oluka sent text messages to NUESA
executives in the faculty that read as follows:
For
the N5000 COREN accreditation levy for students:
Fidelity
Bank account no. 5210009569
Account
Name: ESUT Faculty of Engineering
Circulate
widely.
The NUESA executives were
ordered to widely circulate this dean’s messages of extortion; and also
threatened, as is his character, with severe sanctions and excruciating
punishments and sanctions should they fail to mobilize all students of the
faculty into paying the N5000 accreditation levy.
This nefarious and hideous
character of this bank account naturally bakes these questions:
1. Why
has the Dean, Prof S.I. Oluka not openly written and signed circulars clearly
announcing the establishment of that bank account and its intended purposes?
2. Does
the Dean have power to set-up bank accounts where funds or levies from students
and staff are paid without the express approval of authorities above him and
knowledge of the authorities above him?
3. Why
is the Dean surresptiously using the NUESA executives to achieve these
objectives?
4. Why
is Prof. Oluka threatening NUESA executives with sanctions if they failed in
getting their fellow students make payments into that bank account?
5. Who
are other trustees of this account?
6. How would
the funds generated from such payments be accounted for?
7. Where
are the lists of the university approved projects, procurements etc meant for
the accreditation exercise for which these payments are being solicited?
8. What
is the cost of the university approved projects, procurements etc for the
entire accreditation exercise for the Faculty of Engineering?
9. And
many more inexhaustible whys, where, what and hows.
Prof Oluka’s calculation is
that if the 8000 students of the faculty of engineering made up of 6000 regular
students from year 1 to year 5 and 2000 regular students who have one or two
extra years pay, then he would have raked in N5,000 * 8,000 = N40,000,000! The
man is a GENIUS.
It is apt to state at this
juncture that the NUESA executives had earlier reported their unwillingness and
outright rejection by the entire students’ body of the imposition of that levy.
The staff adviser of NUESA, Engr. A.C. Mbah, of the Department of Metallurgical
and Materials Engineering: a long time loyalist and ally – in evil plotting –
of Prof S.I. Oluka is the conduit used by Prof Oluka to twist the hands of
students through their leadership so that this extortion succeeds. When this
same Engr A.C. Mbah was Lecturer II, the Dean, Prof Oluka sent his name forward
as nominee for the office of Ag. Head of Department of Metallurgical and
Materials Engineering, a department that has several senior lecturers and a
professor! The then Ag. Vice Chancellor, Prof Chidi Ugwu, rejected this
nomination and instead appointed Engr. J.C. Ugwoke, Senior Lecturer, as Ag.
Head of Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. Professor
Sylvester Ike Oluka was shocked and irked by this, therefore he swore to
destabilise and rattle this fellow during his headship by sponsoring crises and
instabilities in the department. Somehow, Ugwuoke was lucky and God saved him.
It was this same Engr A.C.
Mbah that organised and executed the factionalisation of the NUESA executives
under Hon. Idike Chikauche using trumped-up charges of embezzlement. This was
even as the Idike led NUESA executives had embarked on many developmental
projects like:
a. The construction of drainage in front of
the Faculty of Engineering building. This was abandoned due to the NUESA crises
which the Dean instigated and orchestrated!
b. The painting of the faculty building.
c. The renovation and facelift of the Office
of the Dean of Engineering. This was completed!
Those projects have long
since been abandoned and all the construction materials procured for them have
since deteriorated and spoilt.
What was Hon Idike’s
offence?
Hon Idike’s grievous and
unpardonable offences include among others his decision to remain on the side
of the Faculty of Engineering Students whose president he was then. As NUESA President,
he refused and opposed the imposition of the Dean’s N25,000 levy per student
under the guise of development levy.
Furthermore, the Dean’s
promise to share the gross proceeds of that levy on the basis 80:20 was not
sufficient enticement for the Idike led executives, who out of conviction to do
right remained resolute on the side of the already over-cheated and over-extorted
students. Furthermore, the entire students had in several well attended
meetings rejected the imposition of development fee/levy as outrageous and
insensitive, especially coming shortly after the resolution of the 7-month
labour crises which made them lose 7 months of academic work. This levy was
also considered outrageous on the premise that the acceptance of the new school
fees structure by the students’ bodies was a precondition on the promise by
ESUT management that the students should not be subjected to further levies.
In view of the foregoing,
and consequent upon our already released briefs on Professor Sylvester Ike
Oluka, it is flabbergasting that this man still holds mindlessly and
tenaciously to his office as Dean without resigning. The greater absurd
surprise is why the Vice Chancellor has not directed the immediate suspension
of Professor Oluka from duties even though we are aware of current
investigation of his activities. But it is worth mentioning that Professor
Sylvester Ike Oluka is the richest man in ESUT as a result of his extortion and
embezzlement. We reliably gathered that he intends using his ill-gotten wealth
to bribe, blackmail, coerce and threaten anyone who is investigating him. He
should be in a special watch list and his continued staying in office as Dean,
is inimical to the outcome of any investigation on him unless this
investigation is just a ruse.
Reliefs Sought:
We seek the following
reliefs:
1. The immediate suspension of Prof. S.I.
Oluka from duty for extortion and other sundry offences pending the consummate
determination of all his nefarious and mindless activities.
2. The removal of Prof. S.I. Oluka from
office as Dean of Faculty of Engineering for gross abuse of office,
insubordination to authorities above him, subversion of the laws setting up
ESUT, womanising, extortion, blackmailing, fraud, impersonation, embezzlement
and stealing.
3. Professor Sylvester Ike Oluka should face
a criminal prosecution. That is, the ICPC and EFCC should be invited to
professionally investigate all our revelations so far and many others.
God bless ESUT!
Cc
His Excellency, the Governor of Enugu State
Hon. Commissioner for
Education, Enugu State
Deputy Vice Chancellor ESUT
Registrar, ESUT
ASUU,
ESUT
SSANU, ESUT
NASU, ESUT
Student Union, ESUT
Ohaneze Ndigbo
The Clergy:
His Lordship, Bishop E.O. Chukwuma
His Lordship, Bishop C.V.C. Onaga
Msgr Obiora Ike
ESUT Governing Council
University
Community
The General Public
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