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USP Chancellor and Nauru President Lionel Aingimea.
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Lionel Aingimea, who is also the USP Chancellor, defended the governing council s decision to relocate Pal Ahluwalia after he was deported by Fiji authorities in February.
The government claimed Professor Ahluwalia and his wife had breached Fiji s Immigration Act.
Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum told Parliament the USP Council had acted illegally because it did not follow the process.
He said the university did not follow the process.
But Aingimea rejected this, saying there was nothing in the statutes nor the USP Charter to suggest the council had broken any rule by reappointing Ahluwalia and issuing him a new contract.
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USP campus in Fiji Photo: USP
The ongoing stand-off between the University of the South Pacific’s host country Fiji and its governing body, the USP Council, has put the regional institution’s future under scrutiny.
The latest crisis came to a head three weeks ago when the whistleblowing vice-chancellor and president, Pal Ahluwalia, and his wife were sent packing by Fijian authorities over accusations the couple breached provisions in their work permits.
The government claimed the Ahluwalias’ conduct was ‘prejudicial to peace, defence, public safety, public order, public morality, public health, security, or good government of the Fiji islands’ as stated under the Immigration Act.