NACETEM Board Wants Appointment Of DG Investigated
The Governing Board of the National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM) has called on President Bola Tinubu to investigate the appointment of Dr Olusola Odusanya as the DG/CEO of NACETEM at the twilight of the last administration.
The Board also described as absurd but stands logic on its head, the alleged call for the dissolution of NACETEM Board by the Academic Staff Union of Research Institutes (ASURI).
A statement by the Board signed and made available to newsmen on Tuesday by NACETEM Governing Board Chairman Hon Haastrup Adewale Olatunji stated that the impasse in NACETEM in recent past is a creation of ASURI who came up with unfounded allegations to scuttle a legitimate recruitment process.
NACETEM Board insisted that the appointment of Dr Olusola Odusanya as NACETEM’s new helmsman is illegal adding that the Governing Board only wants a process that is not flawed and does not violate the rule of law.
On reasons ASURI, championed by its secretary, Professor Theophilus Ndubuaku gave for the call for the Board’s dissolution, the statement said the Governing Board will never condescend to the level of sponsoring any Union to destabilise an organisation it superintends upon.
The Board contended that ASURI National is only doing a paid job to favour a man whose process that trumped him up is not legitimate.
“The Board has nothing against Dr Sola Odusanya as a person . He responded to the call for application for the position of DG/CEO of NACETEM, as did ten (10) others, by the Board but have not made it to the shortlisting stage, when a development which led to the shenanigans of ASURI, the former Minister of State for Science , Technology and Innovation, Chief Ikechukwu Ikoh and some sycophantic officials within the Ministry engendered.
“We have maintained since the beginning of this imbroglio that the recruitment process, that sidelined the Governing Board of NACETEM, was not only flawed, but completely illegal premised on the 2019 Conditions of Service, which was confirmed approved in error, and had since been disowned by the Head of Civil Service of the Federation”, the statement posited.
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