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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.