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Federal University well known as University of Benin has been dragged before a Benin High Court by a social crusader, Patrick Osagie Eholor over unpaid contract said to be running into millions of naira.

Eholor in a statement said his company, Evolino Nigeria Limited is asking the court, in suit number B/699/2021 to compel the institution to pay the company for a contract the company handled for UNIBEN years ago which the school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Lillian Salami refused to pay.

Eholor, who is also the Global President of One Love Foundation said he undertook the contract for the University when Professor Faraday Orumwense was the Vice Chancellor of the institution years ago.

He also alleged that all entreaties to get the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Lilian Salami to pay him, met a brick wall because of his last press release urging the Vice Chancellor to address the rot in the institution.

The social crusader had urged the Vice Chancellor to address the issues of sex for marks, poor electricity and water supply, sorting of courses, inadequate lecture halls, unhygienic hostel conditions and unnecessary interference with the leadership of the Students Union Government.

This, he said, would solve some of the challenges facing the famous citadel of learning in West Africa and beyond.

He said, “I’m urging Professor/Salami, the Vice Chancellor of UNIBEN, to devote more funds made available to her to address some of the challenges facing the only federal university in Edo State. It is only through proper utilisation of funds that we can have adequate human capital and infrastructural development.

“UNIBEN has suffered from maladministration in the past. This must not be allowed to continue by the present Vice Chancellor, Professor Lillian Salami.

“We urge the Vice Chancellor to ensure that UNIBEN under her administration tackle sex for marks, poor electricity and water supply, sorting of courses, inadequate lecture halls, unhygienic hostels and unnecessary interference with the leadership of the S.U.G, making it so inefficient and toothless”, he concluded.

“The VC is trying to be vindictive because I spoke against what is happening in UNIBEN today. She is not happy because I told her to address the issues affecting UNIBEN like sex for marks, poor electricity and water supply, sorting of courses, inadequate lecture halls, unhygienic hostels and unnecessary interference with the leadership of the Students Union Government.

“The world should know what the Vice Chancellor is doing to contractors. A lot of contractors are in big debt today because they borrowed money to execute projects and yet the VC is refusing to pay them.

“It is wrong for people to play politics with everything including government institutions. The right thing the VC was supposed to do was to verify if the contract was fraudulently executed or not, as it is done in an ideal society.

“In this country, men and women are institution. In Canada and other western nations, people don’t act like institution; institution remains institution and that’s why their society is working.

“What I am trying to say is that the VC should stop playing god because she won’t be there forever. It is wrong for her to use her position to victimize some people. It is a government institution, therefore she shouldn’t segregate who to pay and who not pay. It doesn’t matter whether she awarded the contract or not; UNIBEN is a government institution.”

@views exclusive rights: Jungle Journalist Online Media, August 7, 2021.

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