The acting Vice Chancellor of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Rumuolumeni, Port Harcourt, Prof. Okechuku Onuchuku, has dismissed the allegation that the university’s management is marginalising the host community of the institution in the area of employment.
It would be recalled that youths and women of the community took to the streets on Monday, demanding employment slots and accusing the university’s management of marginalising the people.
But in a statement on Tuesday, the vice chancellor explained that out of the 1,500 employment slots, 1,100 were approved for academic staff and 400 for non -teaching categories.
He explained that if the slots were to be distributed equally, each local government area in the state would have had 47 slots for teaching and 17 for non-teaching staff.
But, he said the exercise was clearly done on merit and in compliance with the state’s employment law.
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Prof. Onuchuku said that in the employment that was carried out, Rumuolumeni alone which is one ward in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, got 15 slots in the academic staff category and 30 persons in the non- teaching category totaling 45 persons.
The vice chancellor maintained that the university is a public educational institution, owned by the Rivers State Government, and not an oil company operated by a private individual, hence the need to follow and obey all available rules and regulations governing it.
He stressed that recruitments of such nature in an academic institution must be competitive, particularly in the teaching category and other senior specialised personnel such as medical doctors, accountants, laboratory scientists, and engineers, among others.
