Authorities of the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, in a bid to instill discipline, check corruption and sustain its high academic standard, last Friday sacked 8 lecturers for alleged plagiarism and 36 others for sundry offences.
The vice chancellor of the university, Professor Victor Peretemode, who confirmed the sack, however reminded the deans of faculties and heads of departments that the university has standard laboratories that had been equipped with state- of- the- art facilities for the conduct of experiments and research.
Peretemode said, “Some of the lecturers were dismissed and their appointment as lecturers terminated, others for negligence in the handling of results, some denied of promotion for two years, other stagnated for 5 years while a large number of others were warned and subsequently dismissed for plagiarism, out of the forty staff disciplined, 30 of them were lecturers while the remaining were non-academic staff of the university.”
He said that lecturers and supervisors of final year students who were in the habit of extorting money from students under the guise of running experimental analysis for them have been warned to desist from such unethical practice or face sanctions, adding that lecturers and project supervisors were advised in their own interest to desist forthwith from such unethical practice as any one who runs foul of the law or advice would be appropriately sanctioned.
Investigation revealed that some of the sacked lecturers apart from their involvement in alleged plagiarism, were also involved in large- scale extortion from unsuspecting students, especially during admission and faculty examinations.
