By PAMELA EBOH, Awka

Tansian University with campuses in Oba and Umunya area of Anambra State may be facing unexpected closure following threats by a stakeholder of the university, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka.

Ezeonwuka, who is the owner of Rojenny Stadium in Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, has alleged that the university is owing him N2 billion.

He threatened to sell the institution to recover all the money the university was owing him for using his property – Ranet Industries – at Oba as take-off campus.

Ezeonwuka, who said he owned 81% equity shares of the university because of his landed property worth over N2 billion, alleged that the management of the university had reneged in the payment of honorarium to him as ordered in a court consent judgement.

He said: “The consent judgement clearly stipulated that Tansian University will pay me honorarium for 25 years and thereafter vacate my property at Oba Idemili-South Local Government Area and relocate to their main campus at Umunya in Oyi Local Government Area of the state.

“The consent judgement was reached in 2010 and the university paid e honoraria up to 2015 and stopped thereafter following the advice from one Fr. Obiora to Johnbosco Akam that he would challenge the consent judgement which Ogidi High Court rejected.”

According to him, the Ogidi High Court ruled that he should sell off the university and recover all the unpaid honoraria accruing to him as contained in the consent judgement, since the university had violated the orders of the court by reneging in the payment of the agreed honoraria.

While claiming that he established Tansian University alongside the late Rev. Prof. Johnbosco Akam, Ezeonwuka said the records to that effect could be seen in the National Universities Commission (NUC) that he was the financier of the university and equally brought in other investors to the university.

Efforts to get the Registrar of the institution on his mobile phone for his reaction failed as his phone line continually indicated switched off.

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