The University of Ibadan has reacted to the allegetion that it plagiarized a memo on Coronavirus from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana.
There are allegation and criticism across space that Nigeria’s Premier University plagiarized a memo.
But while reacting to the allegation, the spokesman of the Vice Chancellor of the school, Sunday Saanu on Sunday said the school did not plagiarised.
He added that the said Memo is a template from the World Health Organization (WHO) which was adopted by various organizations to enlighten the public towards checkmating the spread of the Coronavirus that has been tagged a pandemic.
He said “Although my principal, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka had urged me to ignore them, it does appear that the more we attempt to ignore the invertebrate and spurious, if not specious allegation of plagiarizing a public-enlightenment memorandum on Coronavirus from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana, the more some people derive joy in maliciously criminalizing and scandalizing the prestigious University of Ibadan over this matter.
“How can UI plagiarize the University of Cape Coast over Coronavirus? To what end? The said memo is a World Health Organization (WHO) template. It is on various websites and platforms. It is intended to enlighten the public towards checkmating the spread of the Coronavirus that has been tagged a pandemic. What is there to plagiarize in the global instructions designed to avoid contracting the dangerous disease that the medical professionals are still looking for remedy to curtail?
“There is no UI variant of the virus! The entire world is fighting the same menace. Are these UI critics saying when the WHO directs that people should “wash their hands”, UI should say people should “wash their legs” so that we would not be accused of plagiarism?
“So many of these junk bloggers and hungry social media-journalists have gone to the length and breadth of the world with a sour soup of lies with this terrible allegation of UI stealing intellectual property of University of Cape Coast with a view to denting the image of this global brand. This is unfair! UI will never desecrate her enviable records of intellectual robustness and integrity by stealing a memo from a sister’s university.
“An institution of integrity like UI is always a target of embarrassment by some people who are desperately seeking verisimilitude for their fakery. We are aware of the activities of those interested in tarnishing the good image of the University. These people should fear God. UI did not plagiarize the University of Cape Coast. We only reinforced the global instructions towards stopping the rampaging Coronavirus.”
