Secure Prof Osahogulu’s release, VCs tell Buhari

THE Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities have condemned the recent kidnapping of a serving Vice Chancellor, Professor Rosemund Osahogulu of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt. They also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to act quick in ordering relevant security agents to ensure safe release of their abducted colleague. The VCs under the auspices of the Association of Vice-chancellors of Nigerian (Federal, State and Private) Universities, made the call in a statement, at the weekend. The statement signed by the Secretary General of the Association, Professor Michael Faborode, described the abduction of the vice chancellor as worrisome. Foborode said the kidnapping of Osahogulu was more worrisome because his whereabouts had not been established. The statement read in part: “The Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian (Federal, State and Private) Universities, hereby condemns in very strong terms, the recent kidnapping of serving Vice Chancellor, Professor Rosemund Osahogulu of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt. “What has made the kidnapping worrisome is the fact that since he was abducted, there had been neither contact nor news about his whereabouts. “Considering his age and state of health at the time of the incident, we call on Mr President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the Governor of Rivers State and all the relevant security agents to, as a matter of urgency, take necessary action to ensure the safe release of our colleague. “We also call on these ‘evil doers’ who have suddenly taken interest in unleashing terror on innocent and harmless heads of our institutions and other members of the academia to desist from these deadly and dastardly acts and have a change of heart.”