GROSS MISCONDUCT OF KENNETH DIKE HALL GOVERNOR
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The Office of the Chief Judge,
Student Union Government,
University of Nigeria,
Nsukka,
Enugu State.
Dr. Vincent Onodugo,
The Associate Dean,
Student Affairs Department,
University of Nigeria,
Enugu Campus.
April 7th, 2014.
Dear Sir,
A FORMAL REPORT ON THE GRIEVOUS ABUSE OF PUBLIC OFFICE BY THE KENNETH DIKE HALL GOVERNOR, MBATA NNAMDI, IN LEAGUE WITH OTHER UNSCRUPULOUS STUDENTS.
It is with deep regret but firm resolution in upholding the truth that we are compelled to bring to your notice the gross misconduct of Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, who in league with other unscrupulous students, have set out to defraud the school administration of its rightfully entitled revenue.
On Tuesday the 1st day of April, 2014, the SUG Chief Judge, Mr. Emmanuel Onyeabor, was duly allocated a common room located in Kenneth Dike Hall (viz, J400 Extra) by the Students’ Affairs Computer Man as approved by Dr. Vincent Onodugo, the Associate Dean of the Students’ Affairs Department, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. Pursuant to the said allocation, the SUG Chief Judge proceeded to register his allocation with the Kenneth Dike Hall supervisors and thereafter further proceeded to effect possession of the said common room. However, on arrival thereat, he found already in possession thereof three adverse occupants: two final year law students (Ezeh Michael and Mba Richard Okechukwu) and one final year Environmental Faculty student who we only identified as ‘‘Iyke’’. On close inquiry by the SUG Chief Judge, the said three adverse occupants of the said common room traced their void title thereto to the Hall Governor of Kenneth Dike Hall, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi. It was eventually revealed that they had advanced the whooping sum of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00) to the Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, in exchange for the void title to the said room.
On Friday the 4th day of April, 2014, the Enugu Campus SUG Director of Games, Mr. Obot Ubot-Obon, a 400 level law student, informed the SUG Chief Judge in the presence of one Mr. Ani Nnamdi Chris and Mr. Nwora Ike Obiora (both 400 level law students) that on a valid allocation to his own common room located at J400 Series, Kenneth Dike Hall, he (the Director of Games) found about four persons in adverse possession thereof, who jointly claimed to have advanced the sum of thirty-three thousand naira (N33,000.00) to the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, in exchange for the void title to the said common room.
On Thursday the 3rd day of April, 2014, the SUG Chief Judge learnt from one Mr. Okafor Chidozie Wilfred (a 300 level Marketing Department student popularly known as ‘‘OBJ’’) that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi had transferred one of the common rooms reserved for senior SUG officials (viz, J100 Extra located in Kenneth Dike Hall) to one Mr. Ozoalor Charles (a 300 level law student popularly known as ‘‘Jega’’) at an unspecified amount.
On Friday the 4th day of February, 2014, the SUG Chief Judge approached Mr. Ozoalor Charles and privately warned him of the danger associated with the illegal occupation of a room in the hostel. He further inquired privately to discover the amount at which the said room was transferred to him (Mr. Ozoalor Charles) by the Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi. Not unsurprisingly for a man who had consciously involved himself in an illegal transaction with fair knowledge of the implications thereof, Mr. Ozoalor Charles grew violent and made a series of threats to the SUG Chief Judge. All this transpired in the presence of the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi. Also present at the scene was a 400 level law student, Mr. Vincent Onumah. There were other law students there present who we cannot recall their identities. On further inquiry from the Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, he admitted that he had transferred the said room (J100 Extra) at the rate of fifteen thousand naira (N15,000.00) to the said Mr. Ozoalor Charles.
We found it difficult to believe that the said common room (J100 Extra) was transferred to Mr. Ozoalor Charles at the rate of fifteen thousand naira (N15,000.00) only. The said J100 Extra is an exact equivalent of the SUG Chief Judge’s J400 Extra which was transferred to the adverse occupants therein at the rate of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00). It seemed logical to infer that J100 Extra, being an equivalent of J400 Extra, would most likely have been transferred to adverse occupants at similar or identical price tag, viz, the sum of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00). It further appeared that the principle for illegal allotments as developed by the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, is that the amount payable is in some cases negotiable but must in all cases be reasonable and sufficient to equate to the status and comfort of the room illegally allotted.
Indeed, our unbelief was justified as on Saturday the 5th of April, 2014, Mr. Ozoalor Charles (who pleaded ignorance as a defence to his conduct the previous day) informed the SUG Chief Judge that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, had transferred the said common room (J100 Extra) to him at the rate of fourty thousand naira (N40,000.00).
We must admit that Mr. Ozoalor Charles, on realizing the error of his ways, did proceed to tender a formal apology to the SUG Chief Judge in Chambers on the evening of Saturday the 5th day of April, 2014 for his conduct the previous day. The said apology was tendered in the presence of Mr. Ani Nnamdi Chris. Mr. Ozoalor Charles further covenanted to tender a public apology letter to the office of the Chief Judge – copies of which he would paste on relevant notice boards in Kenneth Dike Hall and the Coscharis Lecture Theatre of Law Faculty.
On the night of Friday the 4th of April, 2014, at exactly 7:16PM, Mr. Ezeh Michael, one of the adverse occupants in the SUG Chief Judge’s common room, placed a call to the SUG Chief Judge and made an offer of a hundred thousand naira (N100,000.00) to the SUG Chief Judge in exchange for the SUG Chief Judge’s duly allocated common room (J400 Extra). The SUG Chief Judge expressly refused the offer and stated in strong terms that the room was his legal allotment and was NOT to be transferred to any illegal occupant at any price
whatsoever. We are well aware of the provisions of Clause 2 of the Rules and Regulations Guiding the Students’ Hostel as prescribed by the Department of Students’ Affairs, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, which provides that no student shall let, sublet or part with the possession/accommodation of a hostel room to which he/she has been validly allocated. Furthermore, Clause 6 of the said Rules and Regulations provides that there shall be no illegal swapping of accommodation by students. Clause 7 mandates all students to abide by all the Rules and Regulations governing students(s) conduct in the hostels. The SUG Chief Judge is a law abiding student and is of the firm view that the said Rules and Regulations are wholly and finally binding on him.
We deem the attempt by Mr. Ezeh Michael to compromise the integrity of the SUG Chief Judge via the offeral of a bribe as a grave insult to the entire student judiciary in the University of Nigeria and an attempt to fundamentally corrupt the administration of student justice in the University of Nigeria. The more pathetic part of the offer, in our view, is the fact that the said Mr. Ezeh Michael is presently a Judge of the Law Students’ Association (LAWSA) Court of Appeal. If student judges would conceive such level of corruption, we are perplexed as to whether any hope lies for the future of the judiciary in Nigeria.
In the interest of justice and fairness, on Friday the 4th day of April, 2014, the SUG Chief Judge directed the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, to refund the entire sum of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00) which he had illegally extracted from the three adverse possessors (viz, Ezeh Michael, Mba Richard Okechukwu and ‘‘Iyke’’) in the SUG Chief Judge’s duly allocated common room (viz, J400 Extra) to the said three adverse possessors. It was the firm view of the SUG Chief Judge that it would be inequitable to effect ejectment of the said three adverse possessors from the said common room without making diligent efforts to ensure that the sum they had advanced to the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, as purchase price for the illegal transfer of the said common room was returned to them. The Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, has complied with the directive of the SUG Chief Judge and returned the sum of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00) to the said adverse possessors. He handed the said sum over to Mr. Ezeh Michael who received same on behalf of himself and the other adverse possessors.
We maintain the firm view that the illegal dealings in Kenneth Dike Hall common rooms by the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, as cited above amounts to patent illegality, gross misconduct, criminality, corruption and grievous abuse of public office. We do not find it far-fetched to say that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor has from his illegal dealings as cited above shown that he is corrupt to the marrow bones.
There are unverified rumours with regards to the fact that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, had illegally transferred numerous other common rooms and empty bed-spaces in six-man rooms to undeserving students. Indeed, the ostensible level of corruption attributable to the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, as can be gleaned from the above illegal dealings in common rooms would appear capable of alarming even Mephistopheles himself. We fear what such an individual is capable of evolving into in the near future if allowed to walk down the corridors of power in the larger society. We the youth are wont to cry out that the administration of our parents is corrupt and that we shall correct the error when our generation takes over the reins of power. But in the light of the above illegal and corrupt dealings by mere undergraduates, we fear that our generation would emerge worse than that of our fathers.
The SUG Chief Judge is of the firm belief that he would be undeserving of the ordinary integrity required of and indeed attached to the office he occupies were he to take a bribe, turn a blind eye and shelve this grievous abuse of public office beneath the sheets. Furthermore, as the custodian of student justice in University of Nigeria, the SUG Chief Judge is of the firm view that it is his moral and obligatory duty to expose and bring to fore any form of student illegality and corruption that comes to his knowledge.
On our inauguration at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus Main Hall on the 21st day of March, 2014, we swore to uphold the principles of student justice, fairness and integrity in the University of Nigeria without fear or favour; and so we shall irrespective of whose ox is gored.
It is not within our knowledge whether or not the Kenneth Dike Deputy Hall Governor, Mr. Anadi Ndubuisi, and/or the Kenneth Dike Welfare Officer, Mr. Offorbuike Arthur, was/were privy to the facts of the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor’s illegal dealings in Hall rooms and concealed same.
It is within our knowledge that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor has as at the early hours of today being Monday the 7th day of April, 2014, made a refund of the sum of twenty thousand naira (N20,000.00) to Mr. Ozoalor Charles, being half of the illegal purchase price of fourty thousand naira (N40,000.00) advanced to him by Mr. Ozoalor Charles in respect of J100 Extra. The Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, has further covenanted to make a refund of the balance of twenty thousand naira (N20,000.00) to Mr. Ozoalor Charles before 12:00PM today. This we considered just as an SUG official has already indicated interest in the said J100 Extra and is making moves to eject Mr. Ozoalor Charles therefrom.
Considering the fact that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, has with the intervention of the SUG Chief Judge made a substantial restitution of the illegal sums advanced to him in respect of illegal transfers of common rooms to adverse occupants; and further considering the fact that the principal individuals involved in the illegal transactions complained of in this report have shown substantial remorse for their misconduct, it is our humble prayer that the relevant authorities, in effecting disciplinary measures pursuant to the complaints laid out in this report, shall consider ameliorating the harsh edges of the sword of justice with the mild sheath of mercy. We sincerely do not wish that any administrative action which shall be taken by the relevant authorities pursuant to the matters laid out in this report shall lead to the non-graduation and/or non-eligibility for law school of any of the individuals involved in the dealings complained of in this report.
Yours Sincerely,
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Emmanuel Onyeabor,
SUG Chief Judge,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
the link >>The Office of the Chief Judge <<
The Office of the Chief Judge,
Student Union Government,
University of Nigeria,
Nsukka,
Enugu State.
Dr. Vincent Onodugo,
The Associate Dean,
Student Affairs Department,
University of Nigeria,
Enugu Campus.
April 7th, 2014.
Dear Sir,
A FORMAL REPORT ON THE GRIEVOUS ABUSE OF PUBLIC OFFICE BY THE KENNETH DIKE HALL GOVERNOR, MBATA NNAMDI, IN LEAGUE WITH OTHER UNSCRUPULOUS STUDENTS.
It is with deep regret but firm resolution in upholding the truth that we are compelled to bring to your notice the gross misconduct of Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, who in league with other unscrupulous students, have set out to defraud the school administration of its rightfully entitled revenue.
On Tuesday the 1st day of April, 2014, the SUG Chief Judge, Mr. Emmanuel Onyeabor, was duly allocated a common room located in Kenneth Dike Hall (viz, J400 Extra) by the Students’ Affairs Computer Man as approved by Dr. Vincent Onodugo, the Associate Dean of the Students’ Affairs Department, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus. Pursuant to the said allocation, the SUG Chief Judge proceeded to register his allocation with the Kenneth Dike Hall supervisors and thereafter further proceeded to effect possession of the said common room. However, on arrival thereat, he found already in possession thereof three adverse occupants: two final year law students (Ezeh Michael and Mba Richard Okechukwu) and one final year Environmental Faculty student who we only identified as ‘‘Iyke’’. On close inquiry by the SUG Chief Judge, the said three adverse occupants of the said common room traced their void title thereto to the Hall Governor of Kenneth Dike Hall, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi. It was eventually revealed that they had advanced the whooping sum of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00) to the Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, in exchange for the void title to the said room.
On Friday the 4th day of April, 2014, the Enugu Campus SUG Director of Games, Mr. Obot Ubot-Obon, a 400 level law student, informed the SUG Chief Judge in the presence of one Mr. Ani Nnamdi Chris and Mr. Nwora Ike Obiora (both 400 level law students) that on a valid allocation to his own common room located at J400 Series, Kenneth Dike Hall, he (the Director of Games) found about four persons in adverse possession thereof, who jointly claimed to have advanced the sum of thirty-three thousand naira (N33,000.00) to the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, in exchange for the void title to the said common room.
On Thursday the 3rd day of April, 2014, the SUG Chief Judge learnt from one Mr. Okafor Chidozie Wilfred (a 300 level Marketing Department student popularly known as ‘‘OBJ’’) that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi had transferred one of the common rooms reserved for senior SUG officials (viz, J100 Extra located in Kenneth Dike Hall) to one Mr. Ozoalor Charles (a 300 level law student popularly known as ‘‘Jega’’) at an unspecified amount.
On Friday the 4th day of February, 2014, the SUG Chief Judge approached Mr. Ozoalor Charles and privately warned him of the danger associated with the illegal occupation of a room in the hostel. He further inquired privately to discover the amount at which the said room was transferred to him (Mr. Ozoalor Charles) by the Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi. Not unsurprisingly for a man who had consciously involved himself in an illegal transaction with fair knowledge of the implications thereof, Mr. Ozoalor Charles grew violent and made a series of threats to the SUG Chief Judge. All this transpired in the presence of the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi. Also present at the scene was a 400 level law student, Mr. Vincent Onumah. There were other law students there present who we cannot recall their identities. On further inquiry from the Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, he admitted that he had transferred the said room (J100 Extra) at the rate of fifteen thousand naira (N15,000.00) to the said Mr. Ozoalor Charles.
We found it difficult to believe that the said common room (J100 Extra) was transferred to Mr. Ozoalor Charles at the rate of fifteen thousand naira (N15,000.00) only. The said J100 Extra is an exact equivalent of the SUG Chief Judge’s J400 Extra which was transferred to the adverse occupants therein at the rate of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00). It seemed logical to infer that J100 Extra, being an equivalent of J400 Extra, would most likely have been transferred to adverse occupants at similar or identical price tag, viz, the sum of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00). It further appeared that the principle for illegal allotments as developed by the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, is that the amount payable is in some cases negotiable but must in all cases be reasonable and sufficient to equate to the status and comfort of the room illegally allotted.
Indeed, our unbelief was justified as on Saturday the 5th of April, 2014, Mr. Ozoalor Charles (who pleaded ignorance as a defence to his conduct the previous day) informed the SUG Chief Judge that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, had transferred the said common room (J100 Extra) to him at the rate of fourty thousand naira (N40,000.00).
We must admit that Mr. Ozoalor Charles, on realizing the error of his ways, did proceed to tender a formal apology to the SUG Chief Judge in Chambers on the evening of Saturday the 5th day of April, 2014 for his conduct the previous day. The said apology was tendered in the presence of Mr. Ani Nnamdi Chris. Mr. Ozoalor Charles further covenanted to tender a public apology letter to the office of the Chief Judge – copies of which he would paste on relevant notice boards in Kenneth Dike Hall and the Coscharis Lecture Theatre of Law Faculty.
On the night of Friday the 4th of April, 2014, at exactly 7:16PM, Mr. Ezeh Michael, one of the adverse occupants in the SUG Chief Judge’s common room, placed a call to the SUG Chief Judge and made an offer of a hundred thousand naira (N100,000.00) to the SUG Chief Judge in exchange for the SUG Chief Judge’s duly allocated common room (J400 Extra). The SUG Chief Judge expressly refused the offer and stated in strong terms that the room was his legal allotment and was NOT to be transferred to any illegal occupant at any price
whatsoever. We are well aware of the provisions of Clause 2 of the Rules and Regulations Guiding the Students’ Hostel as prescribed by the Department of Students’ Affairs, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, which provides that no student shall let, sublet or part with the possession/accommodation of a hostel room to which he/she has been validly allocated. Furthermore, Clause 6 of the said Rules and Regulations provides that there shall be no illegal swapping of accommodation by students. Clause 7 mandates all students to abide by all the Rules and Regulations governing students(s) conduct in the hostels. The SUG Chief Judge is a law abiding student and is of the firm view that the said Rules and Regulations are wholly and finally binding on him.
We deem the attempt by Mr. Ezeh Michael to compromise the integrity of the SUG Chief Judge via the offeral of a bribe as a grave insult to the entire student judiciary in the University of Nigeria and an attempt to fundamentally corrupt the administration of student justice in the University of Nigeria. The more pathetic part of the offer, in our view, is the fact that the said Mr. Ezeh Michael is presently a Judge of the Law Students’ Association (LAWSA) Court of Appeal. If student judges would conceive such level of corruption, we are perplexed as to whether any hope lies for the future of the judiciary in Nigeria.
In the interest of justice and fairness, on Friday the 4th day of April, 2014, the SUG Chief Judge directed the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, to refund the entire sum of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00) which he had illegally extracted from the three adverse possessors (viz, Ezeh Michael, Mba Richard Okechukwu and ‘‘Iyke’’) in the SUG Chief Judge’s duly allocated common room (viz, J400 Extra) to the said three adverse possessors. It was the firm view of the SUG Chief Judge that it would be inequitable to effect ejectment of the said three adverse possessors from the said common room without making diligent efforts to ensure that the sum they had advanced to the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, as purchase price for the illegal transfer of the said common room was returned to them. The Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, has complied with the directive of the SUG Chief Judge and returned the sum of eighty thousand naira (N80,000.00) to the said adverse possessors. He handed the said sum over to Mr. Ezeh Michael who received same on behalf of himself and the other adverse possessors.
We maintain the firm view that the illegal dealings in Kenneth Dike Hall common rooms by the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, as cited above amounts to patent illegality, gross misconduct, criminality, corruption and grievous abuse of public office. We do not find it far-fetched to say that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor has from his illegal dealings as cited above shown that he is corrupt to the marrow bones.
There are unverified rumours with regards to the fact that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, had illegally transferred numerous other common rooms and empty bed-spaces in six-man rooms to undeserving students. Indeed, the ostensible level of corruption attributable to the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, as can be gleaned from the above illegal dealings in common rooms would appear capable of alarming even Mephistopheles himself. We fear what such an individual is capable of evolving into in the near future if allowed to walk down the corridors of power in the larger society. We the youth are wont to cry out that the administration of our parents is corrupt and that we shall correct the error when our generation takes over the reins of power. But in the light of the above illegal and corrupt dealings by mere undergraduates, we fear that our generation would emerge worse than that of our fathers.
The SUG Chief Judge is of the firm belief that he would be undeserving of the ordinary integrity required of and indeed attached to the office he occupies were he to take a bribe, turn a blind eye and shelve this grievous abuse of public office beneath the sheets. Furthermore, as the custodian of student justice in University of Nigeria, the SUG Chief Judge is of the firm view that it is his moral and obligatory duty to expose and bring to fore any form of student illegality and corruption that comes to his knowledge.
On our inauguration at the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus Main Hall on the 21st day of March, 2014, we swore to uphold the principles of student justice, fairness and integrity in the University of Nigeria without fear or favour; and so we shall irrespective of whose ox is gored.
It is not within our knowledge whether or not the Kenneth Dike Deputy Hall Governor, Mr. Anadi Ndubuisi, and/or the Kenneth Dike Welfare Officer, Mr. Offorbuike Arthur, was/were privy to the facts of the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor’s illegal dealings in Hall rooms and concealed same.
It is within our knowledge that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor has as at the early hours of today being Monday the 7th day of April, 2014, made a refund of the sum of twenty thousand naira (N20,000.00) to Mr. Ozoalor Charles, being half of the illegal purchase price of fourty thousand naira (N40,000.00) advanced to him by Mr. Ozoalor Charles in respect of J100 Extra. The Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, has further covenanted to make a refund of the balance of twenty thousand naira (N20,000.00) to Mr. Ozoalor Charles before 12:00PM today. This we considered just as an SUG official has already indicated interest in the said J100 Extra and is making moves to eject Mr. Ozoalor Charles therefrom.
Considering the fact that the Kenneth Dike Hall Governor, Mr. Mbata Nnamdi, has with the intervention of the SUG Chief Judge made a substantial restitution of the illegal sums advanced to him in respect of illegal transfers of common rooms to adverse occupants; and further considering the fact that the principal individuals involved in the illegal transactions complained of in this report have shown substantial remorse for their misconduct, it is our humble prayer that the relevant authorities, in effecting disciplinary measures pursuant to the complaints laid out in this report, shall consider ameliorating the harsh edges of the sword of justice with the mild sheath of mercy. We sincerely do not wish that any administrative action which shall be taken by the relevant authorities pursuant to the matters laid out in this report shall lead to the non-graduation and/or non-eligibility for law school of any of the individuals involved in the dealings complained of in this report.
Yours Sincerely,
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Emmanuel Onyeabor,
SUG Chief Judge,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
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