By Timothy Nwobodo

The management, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, has warned the staff of the university that staff members who failed to be regularised are not under the employ of the institution.

The Registrar, Mr Ambrose Ugwu issued the warning in an exclusive interview with ESUT Monitor in his office on Friday. 

Mr Ugwu who is the graduate in the institution to hold the position, explained the importance of regularisation and why the management is taking the exercise seriously.

“It is very important for you to understand what regularization is; if you’re a staff of the University and you are not regularised, if anything happens to you, you are not known (in the system), that is the essence of it. Regularisation is where you bring your documents after staying for a year or two, because anything you have is temporal appointment. Until you are regularised and confirmed, you can only have the rights and privileges of a staff when you’re regularised, that is the essence of regularisation.

“If you retire today, and you go to the ministry for payment of your gratuity, they will ask you, ‘are you a regularised staff?’ If you are not regularised, they don’t have any obligation where you are. So, it is very important and many of us do not understand what it means. I thank God for the type of Vice-Chancellor the University have within this period, because he’s a man that knows the rules. He knows what it means to be regularised, that is why when he came on board he said staff must be regularised.”

He recalled that the process of the regularisation, it was observed that many Professors, Doctors, Engineers, senior staff have not been regularised. He added that the new management didn’t introduce the exercise stressing that regularisation is part of the rules operating in the civil service system.

“You will be surprised to notice that so many Professors, Associate Professors, Engineers, Doctors, are not regularised. Regularisation is where you present your papers; you claim you’re this, let us see it. After two years then you’re confirmed a staff. So you have to be regularised before being confirmed. It has been in our laws, the only thing is that we didn’t care about it. It was like a battle, ‘how are you telling us to bring our documents after twenty years, thirty years?’ but along the line, so many people started seeing the need,” he concluded.