Reports say that Abia State University has withdrawn the degree
certificate it awarded to a former governor of the state, Uzor Orji
Kalu.
According to Premium Times, the University in a statement by its
Registrar, O. E. Onuoha, on Saturday said the decision was taken after
an emergency meeting of the University Senate which considered there
commendations of a panel which investigated the allegations levelled
against Kalu. In withdrawing the certificate, the University said the
admission and graduation of the former governor violated its extant
rules and regulations.
"On the strength of the findings and recommendations of an
investigative panel into allegations of breach of the extant Academic
Regulations of Abia State University, in the admission process of the
admission and graduation of Kalu, Orji Uzor in the discipline of
Government and Public Administration, of matriculation number
00/42226, the Senate of Abia State University at its resumed 69th
Extra-Ordinary meeting of Friday 1st March 2013 and by a vote of
eighty-eight (88) against three (3) dissenting voices only, approved
the cancellation and withdrawal of the degree result and certificate
awarded to him.
"The decision of Senate was based on the following grounds among others:
*The violation of the Academic Regulations of the university on
Admission-by-Transfer, which rendered the offer irregular, abinitio.
*The non-completion of the mandatory six(6) semesters (i.e. three
academic years of study), before he was awarded a degree of the
university. He spent only two semesters in all.
"The university Senate maintained that its action, aforesaid, derived
from the exercise of its onerous statutory responsibility to guard and
maintain , at all times, the Academic Regulations of the University,
its hard-earned reputation and the credibility of the certificates it
awards," Onuoha said.
Kalu was initially a student of the University of Maiduguri but he
dropped out. While he was governor of Abia state, he reenrolled
Kalu.
According to Premium Times, the University in a statement by its
Registrar, O. E. Onuoha, on Saturday said the decision was taken after
an emergency meeting of the University Senate which considered there
commendations of a panel which investigated the allegations levelled
against Kalu. In withdrawing the certificate, the University said the
admission and graduation of the former governor violated its extant
rules and regulations.
"On the strength of the findings and recommendations of an
investigative panel into allegations of breach of the extant Academic
Regulations of Abia State University, in the admission process of the
admission and graduation of Kalu, Orji Uzor in the discipline of
Government and Public Administration, of matriculation number
00/42226, the Senate of Abia State University at its resumed 69th
Extra-Ordinary meeting of Friday 1st March 2013 and by a vote of
eighty-eight (88) against three (3) dissenting voices only, approved
the cancellation and withdrawal of the degree result and certificate
awarded to him.
"The decision of Senate was based on the following grounds among others:
*The violation of the Academic Regulations of the university on
Admission-by-Transfer, which rendered the offer irregular, abinitio.
*The non-completion of the mandatory six(6) semesters (i.e. three
academic years of study), before he was awarded a degree of the
university. He spent only two semesters in all.
"The university Senate maintained that its action, aforesaid, derived
from the exercise of its onerous statutory responsibility to guard and
maintain , at all times, the Academic Regulations of the University,
its hard-earned reputation and the credibility of the certificates it
awards," Onuoha said.
Kalu was initially a student of the University of Maiduguri but he
dropped out. While he was governor of Abia state, he reenrolled
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