Cursory: Enugu State University (ESUT) has been sued by an ex-student over administrative carelessness. His complaint is that his results were mixed up and caused him not to come off as the top of his class. The alumnus claims that he is doing all this because he wants to stop another student to suffer the same injustice he was put through by the irresponsible administration.
Enugu State University of Science and Technology has being sued by an ex-student for administrative negligence in the Enugu State High Court. He claimed that he was the class’s top graduate overall, but this was not noted due to poor results compilation, and as a result, he missed out on many possibilities.
Through this lawsuit, filed by one of her former students who was disputing the incorrect calculation of his Final Cumulative Grade Point Average, the public was made aware of the long-standing administrative incompetence of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. Higher education institutions have a history of assuming unchecked authority over their students, leaving them with little choice but to submit to whatever is imposed upon them.
The plaintiff asked the court to order the defendant to recalculate and recompute his FCGPA and award him his correct and merited FCGPA in the lawsuit that was filed before the Enugu State High Court and assigned the case number AGB/30/2022 against ESUT, the Vice Chancellor, Registrar, and Dean of the Law Faculty.
He explained the following to the Plaintiff when they spoke following the court proceedings:
“I just pity the current students of this school and the ones they are going to graduate. My interaction with this school in the course of this case have made me began to wonder why anyone could classify ESUT as an institution of higher learning. No wonder NUC rates them at the moment as the worst State University in Nigeria. In NUC 2022 rating, ESUT is the worst State University in Nigeria and from what I am seeing, it will not change very soon.
“When you interact with them you can see the negligence, the lack of ethics, the corruption, the disdain and neglect for students and general incompetence. A school that should be hiding it’s face in shame. Like how do you entertain this level of incompetence. You can’t teach, you can’t instill discipline, sorting here and there and yet they have no shame. A student goes through the hell you expose them in the name of education and yet you cannot at the end of the ordeal compute and award him his correct result”.
Prior to filing a lawsuit, the Plaintiff repeatedly demanded in letters to the Defendant that the error in his FCGPA be fixed. The Defendants rejected these legitimate demands. The Plaintiff would have graduated first in his class if the Defendant had not made these mistakes. While acknowledging its administrative incompetence, the Defendant chose not to heed the Plaintiff’s call and instead claimed that if the error had not been committed, the Plaintiff would not have graduated from a different grade level.He also explained how
“Even when your attention is drawn to your incompetence, you sit on your high hoarse and refuse to do what is right” he outlined how the lackadaisical attitude of the school has persisted over the years
“For all the years these error had persisted, and the ordeal I have gone through because of it, the least expected from a responsible institution is apology, correction and compensation. Can you quantify the lost opportunities because of this incompetence and someone have not lost his or her job yet.
“This dirty linen shouldn’t come to public if ESUT is competently managed. But here we are, the Court will decide the matter and it will remain in the public record. We cannot keep quiet and let things like this slide, we must correct these anomalies since the school is our alma mater. It’s a shame but we cannot sit back”According to him, he considered the suit a public interest case of which it was not only about him but the students in the system.
“Listen, it’s not just about me, I mean what change can it make in my life today. The opportunities have been lost for good. The pain is there but I thank God for where he has brought me. But what about the current students of the School. If we don’t speak up, who will speak for them. Who will challenge this incompetence?
“Do you know that as we speak, the management has not identified or punished the officers that made this mess. That’s the problem, you cover them and brag that worse errors happen. Can you imagine? Tomorrow, the officers will do worse and be promoted. When your student speaks up, you gang up against the student. But we must speak and we must make it better. The Court will hear us and we see the disadvantage their error has caused me. We criticize our politicians but look at what is happening in a place of learning. It’s a shame.”
TheNigeriaLawyer discovered that ESUT was well-known for acts of misconduct similar to the ones that gave rise to this lawsuit. Most former pupils who participated in an interview expressed regret about ever attending a school with such a high level of administrative incompetence and carelessness. The case has been scheduled for hearing as of the time of this report, however the defendant has not yet filed any papers with the court in connection with the matter.
Source: TheNigerianlawyers
ALLSCHOOL TEAM