*Cites Massive Corruption, Threat to Life etc as Justification
By Christopher Ambe
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| Dr .Ernest Molua: |
Dr.Ernest L.
Molua, Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Agro-business in
the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Buea(UB),
has resigned from his administrative functions as boss of the department.
But
hierarchy is reportedly still hesitant to endorse his resignation, which is
considered by many as a serious crack in the newly created but important
department.
In his letter of resignation dated December
14, 2011 to the Minister of Higher Education, Dr .Molua, said to be the only
agricultural economist at UB now, has, cited Personal threat to life, unaccommodating work environment which defeats
the vision and mission of the University, and Persistent sleaze and moral
impropriety at the University of Buea, to justify his decision to abandon
the duty post of HOD.
Concerning Threat to life, Dr. Molua recalled how
on February 11, 2011, he was physically attacked by students of the University
of Buea Student Union in public at Buea Bongo Square while he was organizing students
of his department for the Youth Day
march-past. But even before the February 11 incident, he wrote that he had
years back been attacked and injured by UB students, reportedly sponsored by
some of his detractor colleagues.
Concerning Unaccommodating work environment, he
expressed regrets that, since assuming office as HOD in January 2010, “I have
virtually worked as Courier, Messenger, Clerk, Typist, Secretary, Computer
Clerk etc.” He blamed in his letter,the University management for failing,
despite repeated requests, to deploy personnel to facilitate work at the
Department.
“This to me
is a glaring strategy to frustrate my output and sabotage not only my efforts
in administration but also to obfuscate my responsibility to teaching and
outreach”, stated the don in his letter.
On Persistent sleaze and moral impropriety,
Dr. Molua, known for his outspokenness, noted: “ The work environment at the
University has in recent times been characterized by heightened impropriety in
student-teacher relationship, the recruitment of non-academic staff, the award
and execution of contracts with some administrators fronting as suppliers and contractors;
the gluttony of teaching-hours accumulation and supervision of long essays by
some junior administrators perceived to be protected by senior kinsmen who
think they have an ordained right to financial gain from rendering services to the University of
Buea and the State. These persistent sleaze and moral impropriety are a
distraction to my rendering of quality services to the university.”
However,
Dr.Molua, who has proof of his allegations, did not mention names of those
involved in the alleged malpractices.
Even as he
has resigned from his post as HOD, Dr. Molua has expressed his readiness to “
remain one of the teaching personnel to guarantee a serene mind to achieve the primordial
mandate for which I was hired by the Ministry of Higher Education to teach and
research.”
Emphasizing
his patriotic spirit, Dr. Molua told the Minister of Higher Education, in his
letter of resignation, that: “I shall therefore be glad to be offered the
opportunity to teach courses and supervise students’ research in the
University
“Should the
Ministry of higher Education and allied departments engaged in the mission of
capacity-building of young Cameroonians think I can be of value to their
development plans, I shall be glad to serve my country in another capacity”
On a related
development, Dr.Molua, before submitting his resignation letter to the Minister
of Higher Education, as HOD, was reportedly at loggerheads with Associate Professor
P.N. Sakwe, who is Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Agriculture and veterinary
Medicine, over academic and administrative matters.
Also published in The RECORDER newspaper, Cameroon ,of June 18,2012
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