Prof. Innocent Ujah, Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo, FUHSO, has expressed the institution’s determination to collaborate with the Benue State Community Volunteer Guards, BSCVGs, on the security of the university’s staff and students.
Prof. Ujah stated this when he received the Zonal leadership of the security outfit at the institution in Otukpo, adding that the visit was timely given the recent kidnappings in that part of the state.
The Vice Chancellor stated that the university places a high priority on the safety and well-being of its students, faculty, and staff, and that this will continue indefinitely.
“That is why students from our institution stay in university-provided hostels to ensure that their movements are monitored for the sake of their security and well-being,” he explained.
He stated that the university was already working with a vigilante group to ensure security, but that the magnitude of the school’s security needs was such that it would not hesitate to work with additional security groups such as the BSCVGs.
The Vice Chancellor urged members of the security force to exercise diligence and strict adherence to the organization’s guiding principles in order to successfully discharge their duties and responsibilities to the people.
Earlier, the Zonal Commander of the BSCVGs, Mr. Williams Agada, who praised the Vice Chancellor for giving his team a warm welcome, expressed delight at the level of developmental activities that the institution’s arrival had brought to Otukpo and its environs.
He congratulated Prof. Ujah on his appointment as the institution’s first Vice Chancellor, as well as President Muhammadu Buhari’s conferment of the Officer of the Order of the Niger, OON, saying it attests to his strength of character and capacity to deliver on responsibilities.
While praying for more strength and wisdom for the Vice Chancellor to enable him to sustain the institution’s rapid transformation and take it to greater heights, the Zonal Commander noted that they were in the university to also tap into the school’s developmental strides, particularly in the area of security, assuring the institution that they were readily available for collaboration.
The Zonal Commander was accompanied by the Otukpo Commander, Mr. Emmanuel Inalegwu, the Officer in Charge, Female, Helen Edache, and other security personnel.
