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| Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe |
The Senator heading the Committee on Tertiary Education, Mr. Aminu Suleiman, has said the Federal Polytechnic Ekowe in Bayelsa state is almost non-existent as the school is currently occupied by rats and lizards.
Senator Suleiman, who led the committee members on an oversight visit to the Polytechnic recently said nothing is happening in the institution.
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| Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe Admin Building |
Explaining the situation of the school, the senator claimed, “when we got to the polytechnic, a graveyard was busy compared to the place. The worry is that if the institution is existing, at least, there should be a presence of security personnel, but there was absolutely nothing when we got there. Though, we saw a good edifice occupied by rats and lizards,”
Suleiman said Federal Government gave about N4 billion to the polytechnic in the 2017 budget as well as monthly allocation of N140 million for overhead yet there was nothing to show for it.
The Senator representing Fagge Constituency in Kano state also said that apart from the school being difficult to access, the state of the school does not show it is performing the functions for which it was established.
He said, “In fact, we had to wait for hours before the so-called rector’s office was cleaned and prepared for the meeting and had to wait again before few members of the management appeared to receive us.
“They claimed that the polytechnic has about 110 students and over 1000 staff but there has been no document, report or nominal roll to prove that the so-called staffs were properly recruited by the Federal Government,”
“It seems like a calculated arrangement to undermine finances going into the school. We are still waiting for official correspondence from the school,”
The senator, however, concluded that the polytechnic would be skipped in the 2018 budget, if the school management does not explain what the monthly allocations are spent on.
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