By Marcel Atanga (LL B Hons)
Subject: Controversy In The Deliberations Of Level II Results (DEUG) 2007/2008
Sir, We want to start by acknowledging the undeniable fact that the Faculty of Law and political Science in the University of Dschang is the most organised, ever since you took over command as Dean of the Faculty.
This undeniable fact is widely acclaimed by both students and staff of your faculty, and even other faculties of the University. The Faculty of Law is ever the first to finish its academic programs, organise exams and even issue transcripts to students as soon as results are published.
This, of course, is evidence of the claims that the Faculty is the most organised.
Surprisingly, things took a different turn during the deliberations of Level II (DEUG) results of the faculty.
The deliberations were marred by corruption, favouritism and nepotism. The publication of the controversial results, especially the second list is still making headline news in the University campus and even a welcome address to most mini citès.
The list has continued to raise many eyebrows amongst your students and learned colleagues and lecturers of other faculties. Most considered the deliberations of the results as unfair and inequitable.
Professor, permit us, and for the purpose of clarification, raise the following underlying issues, which most students, lecturers and even your learned colleagues of other faculties will want to know.
Firstly, results in the Faculty of Law had often been published late at night in the presence of students, who are invited to wait until such an hour, (of recent; Licence and Maitrise were published at 11:30 pm, DEUG II at 10 pm).
Is it because the faculty has its own rules governing working hours other than those provided by the Cameroon Labour Code, or it is done according to the whims and caprices of magical and occultic practices which has been come rampant in the Faculty?
Secondly, during the recent publication of the DEUG results, the performance of students in UVs (courses) like Public Finance, Formation Billingue I&II was below average.Most of the students who failed to obtain the DEUG (about 85percent) had eliminated marks in the above-mentioned courses.
Your students wrote to you pleading to be considered for another deliberation. You instead chose the list of a few students who failed in Public Finance and added them two marks each. You again published yet another list with different scores to these students (most of whom were mistresses to some of your close collaborators).
Prof, be sincere to your self; how could some students obtain two different scores in the same course? You said the computer secretary forgot to add marks t as instructed during the deliberations, could it have been thought over only when a list was forwarded to you by students?
Was the computer secretary whom you pretend to say forgot, drunk during the computer operation? If it is true that he actually forgot to add two marks each to all the students as a result of their poor performances, why did he only forget in the case of Public Finance and not Formation Billingue II & III?
Should we now believe in the widely spread rumours on campus that a group of students most of whom were females (one of whom works with the public treasury) contributed a huge amount of money (about FCFA 350.000) and handed over to a certain Dr. at Teclair Palace Hotel, to enable their bill (list) during the deliberation process, which the Dr. convinced all to adopt?
Why was the doctrine of equity not applied to all the students who
failed in only a single course? Is it not a principle in law that when
the equities are equal the law shall prevail?
Learned Prof, you should remember that it was the publication of two
controversial lists in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University
of Buea that sparked off a strike and the killing of some students.
Those who failed in Public Finance were in the same position like those
who failed in Formation Billingue II& III. So, the law should
prevail because the equities are equal.
So Prof, do equity now and with clean hands, for a stitch in time saves nine!
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