Fired Limkokwing lecturer appeals to High Court

CHANDAPIWA BAPUTAKI
Staff Writer | Wednesday June 23, 2010 00:00

Acting Judge Michael Leburu advised Raisi, who was a lecturer at the Faculty of Information Communication and Technology, to lodge his case through the normal court process as he had failed to adduce explicit facts, which rendered his matter urgent.

Raisi had approached the court seeking a review to set aside the decision by the Chairman and Disciplinary Committee of the Limkokwing University held on June 2, 2010 to June 7 that resulted in him being dismissed from the institution's employment.

Leburu stated that from Raisi's founding affidavit the rationale for approaching the court as a matter of urgency was that the applicant would not be afforded substantial redress at a hearing in due course and that he had no other source of income due to his dismissal from Limkokwing's employment. 

Furthermore the Judge said Raisi averred that he has a wife and two children and further that he is an expatriate with financial obligations.

In the judgement read by Judge Leburu, it was further averred by Raisi that if the matter was not urgently heard, he stood to suffer irreparable harm or prejudice in that he would be removed from the institution's payroll.

However, Limkokwing opposed the application without filing any answering affidavit. Leburu said he presumed that was due to the recent service that was effected on them two days before the hearing.

Leburu said the fact that the applicant has no other source of income does not mean that he would not get substantial redress in due course as justice is not dependent on income. He said Raisi has also failed to demonstrate how he would suffer irreparable harm if the matter is not heard urgently and the fact that he has been removed from the institutions' payroll does not mean that he would suffer irreparable harm.

The 36 year-old Raisi, who has lectured at Limkokwing since October 2009 was dismissed for allegedly leaking a marking key to the students for the assignment they were supposed to write.

The students, who got the marking key passed it to their friends and got caught when all the lecturers marking the paper on Java Computing 1 programming realised the answers and answering patterns were the same.

Confirming the incident in an earlier interview, the public relations manager, Mercy Bonnie Thebe said when the students were called for a hearing they confessed, which prompted the lecturer to confess.