The Vice-Chancellor of Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), Professor Abayomi Sunday Fasina, has been suspended by the institution’s Governing Council after facing accusations of sexual harassment from a senior university staff member, Engineer Folasade Adebayo.
A source familiar with the matter disclosed to SaharaReporters on Monday that the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, was dissatisfied with the council’s initial handling of the allegations.
The committee’s earlier recommendation, which reportedly asked Adebayo to apologise to the Vice-Chancellor while ignoring the core claims of harassment, sparked outrage.
In response to the minister’s concerns, Senator Ndoma-Egba promptly called for an emergency online meeting of the university’s Governing Council, which held at 2:00 PM on Monday. The outcome of that meeting was the suspension of Prof. Fasina.
The source further explained that Prof. Fasina appealed to the Council, requesting to be allowed to go on his accrued leave rather than face outright suspension. The Council eventually accepted this request, granting him six months’ leave from his duties.