The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, has ordered the reinstatement of a former acting Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi, Lagos, Chima Igwe.
learnt that Onu, in a letter to the FIIRO Governing Board, directed that the 58-year-old be returned as acting DG.
The university had informed the ICPC that Igwe had yet to defend his thesis and it was the reason he did not have a certificate. “That letter is between the minister and the board chairman. The legal unit of the ministry is also aware of it. Not even the permanent secretary or the minister of state knows about that letter.
“The same day, the board wrote a Save-our-Soul letter to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. They said FIIRO is a research organisation, more or less like an academic institute. They begged the SGF to save the integrity of FIIRO and the anti-corruption policies of Mr President.
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