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LASU VC: Medical associations mount pressure on Sanwo-Olu

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May 14, 2021
LASU VC: Medical associations mount pressure on Sanwo-Olu
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Medical Associations in Lagos State have appealed to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to urgently announce any of the three finalists as the ninth Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU).

This is contained in a statement jointly issued by leaders of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) Lagos; Medical Guild, and Medical and Dental Consultants Association (MDCAN), LASUTH Chapter.

It was signed by Dr Adetunji Adenekan, NMA Chairman; Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, Medical Guild Chairman, and Dr Mumuni Amisu of MDCAN.

They said: “We do not have any reason to believe that the previous processes of selection of ninth Vice-Chancellor for LASU were not rigorous or not in compliance with the laid down procedures and the extant laws of the university.

“We appeal that any one of the three finalists in the second selection process be announced by Mr. Governor without further delay.

“They all have what it takes to put the university in the path of unrivaled progress and excellence in its three core mandates of teaching, research, and community service.

“We are afraid that political interference and the seemingly apparent discrimination against the medical profession and established medical education in Nigeria, may derail the university system.

“This will send a message to all clinical lecturers in the College of Medicine in general as unwanted members of the university community and to the selected Professors of Clinical Medicine in the university specifically.

“It will look as being perceived as second-rate academics in LASU despite proving their mettle by coming top in the interviews conducted.”

The leaders of the associations said that the discrimination would portend danger to medical education in LASU and other Colleges of Medicine in Nigeria where clinical lecturers had diligently held and still hold the forte if their morale was killed.

They urged the governor to ensure that merit and extant laws were applied in the matter.

“We will use any lawful and legal means to prevent the disenfranchisement of any qualified person, including medical doctors with fellowship,” the leaders said.

They expressed concern that intervention of the Special Visitation Panel was in furtherance of “a sinister agenda that was inimical to the progress of the university, and which may engender further crisis”.

The leaders said that their interaction with the panel exposed “not only feign ignorance but their prejudice and bias against the medical academia”.

According to them, we fear that their recommendations will reflect such and will only engender a crisis.

“We are concerned by the level of ignorance feigned by the panelists about the Medical Fellowship.

“They all erroneously assert that Medical Fellowship was not an acceptable qualification to teach in the university, despite glaring evidence that this is the practice in Nigerian Universities and stipulated by the relevant laws and conditions of service of LASU.

“In addition, despite the fact that three past Vice-Chancellors of LASU (the pioneer VC, Prof. Folabi Olumide, the fourth VC, Prof. Fatiu Akesode, and the seventh VC, Prof. John Obafunwa).

“They have distinguished themselves as medical doctors with Fellowship and the condition of service of LASU recognised such, just as every other university in Nigeria,” the leaders said.

They said that the views expressed by the panel confirmed their fears that the whole “crisis in the LASU vice-chancellor selection process was orchestrated”.

The leaders added that the plan was “for the sole agenda of using the needless Ph.D. versus Medical Fellowship brouhaha as an excuse to reject the outcome of the selection process”.

While commending the efforts of all stakeholders, they warned against discrimination of medical doctors in the appointment of new vice-chancellor for the university to retain its role as a world-class institution.


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