Borno state commissioner of health and human services, Juliana Bitrus has issued a query to the provost, College of Nursing and Midwifery, Rukaiya Shettima Mustapha, for suspending some students due to them not joining others in welcoming President Muhammadu Buhari on June 17 in Maiduguri.
She described the provost as being mischievous against Borno state government because she acted on her own without recourse to any official at her supervising ministry and without any directives from anyone in the state government.
In the query with reference number MOH/PER/752 V.I and dated June 25, Juliana demanded that the provost responds within 48 hours, to advance compelling reasons why a disciplinary action shouldn't be meted against her.
She stated Borno has about eight state owned tertiary institutions but it was only at the college of nursing and midwifery that students were suspended, including with signed letters addressed to them, in apparent effort to embarrass the state government.
She mentioned that despite it being normal for students to join in welcoming visiting presidents all over Nigeria, such acts are voluntary.
The commissioner stated that the ministry didn't believe it, when news came out about the action taken by the provost, which led it into investigating and confirming the act before issuing a query.
While stating concerns that the provost may have used the president's visit to get at some students, the commissioner noted that Heads of States and Presidents have been visiting Borno since 1976, and students do join in welcoming them, and no one ever expected 100% compliance in any public mobilization.
She further said that if any issue involving students was to be raised, how come it was not the Borno State University, which the President Commissioned, or schools around projects commissioned by the President?
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