Contrary to possible popular thought, the Faculty Legislative Council maintains that the President of the Faculty of Education, Bashorun Mubarak, remains suspended. Mubarak had earned a 14-day ‘working days’ suspension from the FLC on the grounds of gross misconduct in a sitting held at the A206 lecture room on the 23rd May, 2015 and, it was thought that the duration would have been exhausted by now.
However, in a telephone conversation with the NUESA Press correspondent, the Speaker of the FLC has disclosed that the President’s suspension is yet to be served. The reason he gave was that the two-week break-which was thought to have been enough for the duration of the suspension-had only one working day in it; a day on which the President was rumoured to still have had a meeting with other members of the C. E. C.
In a related development, sources have claimed that the current cold war between the FLC and the CEC is not unconnected to the decision of the CEC to maintain what has been described as transparency. In a recent chat, a source whose identity we may not disclose informed that the CEC is worried about what has been described as the unreasonable monetary demands being made by both the Legislative (FLC) and Judiciary (FJC) arms in the name of budgetary allocations. Another source opines that the CEC has come under fire for an apparent refusal to honour the request for funds on the part of the FLC for visits to one of the Osun and Oyo states Houses of Assembly; a sum believed to be in the region of over ₦20, 000. The CEC is worried about how past allocations of such nature have been expended and is believed to be unwilling to allow the trend linger any further.
