….Consultant returns to venue, denies allegation, says she was insulted instead
A professor of mathematics at the Osun State University, identified as Amos Popoola was on Friday allegedly called ‘a bastard’ by the consultant handling the staff audit of the state workers.
Prof. Popoola was said to have been humiliated by the consultant, Saadat Bakrin Ottun during the turn of the university for the ongoing audit ordered by the State Government for all its employees.
Daily Mail had reported that Ottun on Friday called an unidentified professor of the university a bastard but later learnt that it was professor Amos Popoola of the department of mathematics of UNIOSUN.
The consultant was also alleged to have seized the school Bursar’s mobile phone as she claimed that the call he was receiving was interrupting the network being used for the exercise.
Members of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU and Senior Staff Academics Union of University who were dissatisfied with what they called an embarrassment and unruly behaviour by the consultant raised eyebrows disrupting the exercise for close to two hours.
They gathered outside the hall where the exercise was taking place expressing their displeasure.
The protesting staff of UNIOSUN called for government’s intervention to impress it on the consultant to tender apology for the misconduct.
The consultant, Ottun who left the venue in annoyance later returned to the venue to later restart the exercise when fray nerves seemed to have been calmed.
In an interview with journalists, Ottun who said he did not call anybody ‘a bastard claimed that she was a subject of abuse from the staff of the university instead.
