“It’s so bad that it’s impossible…I can’t run this campus! They have made it impossible!” – Samad?By Leon SuseranDirector of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC), Prof. Daizal R. Samad,Cheap Jerseys China, has tendered his resignation. Samad was re- appointed Director of the campus only in April and was supposed to have served another three-year contract.His resignation letter to the Pro- Chancellor, Dr. Prem Misir and UG Council was dated July 4, 2013 and will come into effect on October 4, 2013. He stated that relations between him and the new Vice- Chancellor (VC) Professor Jacob Opadeyi as well as with the “dead weight” Turkeyen Campus have become strained and distant over the past weeks. He accused Turkeyen of “dictating” the day-to-day running of the Berbice Campus.Prof. Daizal R. SamadAttempts to reach Prof. Opadeyi and Pro- Chancellor Dr. Prem Misir for comments, proved futile.Additionally, Prof. Samad stated that the Berbice campus is also running at a financial deficit, a situation which developed last November.UGBC, he stated, will collapse in time unless the government stops sitting back and allowing this to happen. The budget of UGBC, he said, “is in tatters.” “That happened between November and April while I was away, under very disgusting circumstances…We’ve had surpluses over the years—suddenly the budget break.”He added that he is under attack, much of which has become “personal.” “The situation is impossible. I can’t work. I am not being allowed to work!” I’ve been cussed down on the phone. I am talking about all the ‘F’ and ‘S’—all of it. ‘Do so and so or we will fire you!’”Prof. Samad said that after Opadeyi’s appointment earlier in the year,Jerseys NFL Cheap, he said that he was very optimistic that UG would have turned around for the better, “but none of it has worked.” Opadeyi had visited UGBC twice. During one visit he had with the private sector and combined Chambers of Commerce in Berbice, “he said that Prem Misir is not his boss. He also said that he will fire John Seeram—the Bursar and he will give Samad a long rope—let him hang himself. Now you don’t even know me! You haven’t met me; it means you come here with forethought and malice—it’s premeditated!”“It’s so bad that it’s impossible…I can’t run this campus! They have made it impossible!” He stated that the new VC had made several promises to him regarding UGBC, none of which have been fulfilled. New programmes, delegated authority and some amount of autonym,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, “but what we had was death—complete removal of authority.”ALL AUTHORITY TAKEN AWAYProf. Samad noted that the situation “has becoming much,Cheap NFL Jerseys, much worst” over the past few months “and whatever little authority we had on this campus, has been taken away.” Even though he is the Director of the campus, he stated that all authority has been “taken away” from him and the campus isn’t allowed to do anything on its own, except if Turkeyen gives permission.This includes taking action against people who break the rules of conduct. “We can’t take any action. We are helpless. All the authority has been removed from us. The end result of this is that there has been a complete breakdown of authority on this campus.Anybody can do anything at any time—whatever they want—if they want to work, they work. If a clerk disobeys an instruction…she’s not working! That’s it, and there’s nothing we can do about it, because they report directly to Turkeyen!”Prof. Samad stated, too, that his lecturers and other staff at UGBC now report directly to Turkeyen and termed this as ‘eye- pass’. “This campus has been bound around its ankles, with its wrist tied behind its back.”THREATS“I have got threatening letters from Turkeyen,” he added. Prof. Samad said that he is prepared to make any sacrifice. If this country wants my life,China Jerseys Cheap, I will give it, but you can’t take my dignity—my life, yes,Jerseys Wholesale, my dignity, no. That I must go to my Creator with, so the insults and threats and cuss down, I am not accepting it; I don’t have to and I shall not—that is why I have resigned!” He added that he can serve elsewhere in the Ministry of Education “but not at UG—I am done with it!”He said that he does not know why UGBC is being singled out for “this kind of destruction, except to say, when ugly people- when evil looks upon good, it reminds evil that it is evil—that is the only way I can put it. Berbice must stop this and protect this campus.”