The suspended Provost of the Osun State School of Schooling, Ila-Orangun, Osun State, Prof. Jimoh Afolabi, on Tuesday, dragged the Chairman of Governing Council of the establishment, Peter Babalola; members of the council and three others earlier than the Nationwide Industrial Courtroom, sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The state Governor, Ademola Adeleke, by way of a press release by his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, had on January 26, 2024, suspended the Provost on the grounds of economic impropriety.
Afolabi, who initiated the go well with earlier than he was suspended because the provost of the faculty, was difficult the governing council’s choice to arrange a probe panel to research him whereas in workplace.
Additionally joined within the go well with are the state authorities, the School of Schooling, the state Ministry of Schooling and eight members of the governing council of the establishment.
On the listening to of the go well with earlier than Justice Hasan Yakubu, counsel for Afolabi, Adesola Adebisi stated the defendants didn’t file any course of earlier than the courtroom however had been solely represented.
Counsel for the defendants, Muyiwa Ogunleye and Adewale Ishola, apologised to the courtroom for his or her failure to file their processes.
Ogunleye promised to current their processes to the courtroom on the subsequent adjourned date.
Counsel for the plaintiff, Adebisi stated, “The go well with was filed consequent upon the invitation of my shopper (Afolabi) earlier than an investigative panel arrange by the Chairman, Governing Council of the establishment. My shopper shouldn’t be seen as being faraway from workplace because the matter had been instituted earlier than his purported suspension and subsequent elimination from workplace.
“Within the face of the legislation, Afolabi stays the Provost of the Osun State School of Schooling, Ila-Orangun. His suspension is in opposition to one of many prayers earlier than the courtroom.”
The presiding choose, Yakubu subsequently adjourned the case until April 17, 2024, for additional listening to.
