The Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) on Friday sacked eight of its staff members for alleged acts of fraud.
According to the institution’s Director of Public Relations, Mr Osita Ugwuoti, six of the affected staff members were allegedly responsible for the illegal admission of more than 500 students recently expelled from the school.
Ugwuoti said in a statement in Enugu on Friday that one of the staff members was a senior lecturer and that they belonged to the various departments of the institution.
“One staff was discovered to be engaged in double employment at ESUT and the Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Enugu, and earned salaries from both institutions,’’ he said.
The director said that another one was sacked for mutilating students’ results, sale of degree results and other related malpractice.
Ugwuoti said the resolution to sack the officers was taken at the 126th regular meeting of the governing council of the university.
The statement warned that such punitive measures would henceforth descend on any staff member involved in any form of academic fraud.?