Nebo Panel Submits Report, Cites Age Falsification, Corrupt Practices At Imo State Varsity

The Imo State University Visitation Panel led by Professor Chinedu Nebo, has submitted a report to the State governor, Hope Uzodimma, showing corruption in the management of the institution.

According to the report (as disclosed in a statement issued by Oguwike Nwachuku, Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser to the Governor), the panel noted that the standard of the school was negatively affected by corrupt practices like age falsification, mismanagement of funds among others.

“The plethora of issues highlighted in Prof. Nebo’s Executive Summary are: falsified age claim, need for ICT compliant personnel, especially by the Principal officers, digitization of the Institution, succession based on academic excellence and passion to deliver rather than being parasitic to the school, implementation of summary petitions, and shortfalls in school fees collected from students.

“Others include: mismanagement of the Bursary Department coupled with unchecked loss in Internally Generated Revenue (IGR), lack of knowledge of the exact number of students, over-bloated salaries of some workers, need for forensic audit etc. to properly reposition the University,” the Chief Press Secretary stated quoting the panel’s report.

As such, the panel told the governor, at the Government House, Owerri that the outlined issues needed to be urgently resolved so as to reposition the university for greater academic exploits.

On his part, the governor pledged to address the issues raised by the panel, thereby upgrading the standard of the tertiary institution to compete internationally.

“It is either IMSU becomes a University or never,” he said.